I've added a custom field to the users of the forum by using the "filter:user.custom_fields" hook in a custom plugin, which is an awesome feature.
The only problem I'm finding is I want to be able to search for users using this field, but I can't figure out how to use 'users.js' to achieve this. Is this possible with the current code?
My alternative is to create another connection to the MongoDb, which seems a bit dirty, but it's what I'll do in the mean time.
Any help would be great!
It looks like you can do this using User.search(), but it's a little hard for me to follow, my guess as to what your search object would be is:
{
sortBy: 'yourfield',
pagination: false,
filterBy: [
{field: 'yourfield', type:'=', value:'thevalueyouwant'},
{repeat for every value you want}
]
}
That should give you data.users, which is an array of userData objects the match your filters and are sorted by yourfield.
Hey, yeah. I've been meaning to reply as well. What I typed above was actually and older 0.6.0 way of searching, and it doesn't actually work the way you want anyway.
From what I can see, there is no way to search for custom fields using users.js
It seems the proper way of doing would be to add a sorted set value when you create the field. If the field is a number, something like db.sortedSetAdd('users:yourfield', yourfield, uid, callback) then lookup with db.getSortedSetRangeByScore('users:yourfield', 0, count, min, max, callback), that's how I do it in my plugins now.
If it's not a number, you need to store it as db.sortedSetAdd('yourfield:sorted', yourfield + ':' + uid, callback) then lookup with db.getSortedSetRangeByLex('yourfield:sorted', min, max, 0, count, callback)
Here's how I sorted a custom field on my forum without creating a sortedset if you're interested:
// Get all uids
db.getSortedSetRange('users:joindate', 0, -1, function (err, uids) {
// Get their custom_field
User.getMultipleUserFields(uids, ['uid', custom_field], function (err, users) {
// Sort by custom_field
async.sortBy(users, function (user, next) {
return next(null, user.custom_field);
}, function (err, results) {
console.log(results);
});
});
});
If not all users have the field, you can use the 'filter:users.get' hook to filter user results to only users that have the field, like I had to do.
Hooks.filterUsersGet = function (users, next) {
// If 'custom_field' isn't in the results, don't filter.
if (users && users[0] && users[0].custom_field !== void 0) {
// Filter it out if it's null.
async.filter(users, function (user, next) {
return next(user.custom_field !== null);
}, function (results) {
next(null, results);
});
}else{
next(null, users);
}
};
Result:
[ { uid: '18', uuid: '069a79f444e94726a5befca90e38aaf5' },
{ uid: '4', uuid: '294ecf637f1242c6a95d9cf8cc6da3ef' },
{ uid: '3', uuid: '32a46cc646d64ffea4da962692858288' },
{ uid: '5', uuid: '621ad5087ed448dd92dbc83950a222d9' },
{ uid: '17', uuid: 'a85e5f36dc5e465d9c86c6ad88912e99' },
{ uid: '1', uuid: 'f19cb1605bc24838835a07757d60ce80' } ]
