Thank you. This was very descriptive. Sorry, I am ultra new to collection vs relational data structures and JAVA, and Node... so.

This really isn't much mapping to be done considering my experience and carelessness about time consuming processes coming from MySQL and PHP as a main production stack.

THANK YOU. I will use the write-api, I just didn't want to rely on a third party plugin for my system in JAVA (Minecraft Plugin) of communicating with NodeBB etc.

Once I create the initial user with the API I can then manipulate the data from JAVA with no issues.

Again, thanks for the clarification.

Is there tho? Can't I just check for the next available UID and add uid, user, pass and email? If even that? Won't the rest of the values needed just be added by the main controller within NodeDB when the user logs into the actual forum?

I am making a NodeBB integration via a JAVA application, and so far have been able to:

1. Check if user already exists...
2. Compare Provided Password to that of hash in collection...

Now, my question is, what are the minimum requirements for adding a user to the collection?

I have the nodebb-plugin-write-api configured, and can use that for creation, however would rather use the native MongoDB insert.