Mongoose Schema with SubDocument fields that are required

Question

Following Joe Eames tutorial, "Building AngularJS and Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack" at Pluralsight, he demonstrates an example of a Mongoose Schema with document fields that are required, as follows:

var courseSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  title: {type:String, required:'{PATH} is required!'},
  featured: {type:Boolean, required:'{PATH} is required!'},
  published: {type:Date, required:'{PATH} is required!'},
  tags: [String]
   });

I have created my own schema, with a sub-document that works:

  ......
  skin : {styleNum : String, headerLogo: String},
  ......

However, I want the fields to be required and the subdocument is not an array (in Entity Framework it would be akin to an association, not a collection), so this is wrong:

  ......
  skin : [
          {styleNum : String, required:'{PATH} is required!'},
          {headerLogo: String, required:'{PATH} is required!'}
         ]
  ......

What would be the correct syntax for creating an 'Entity Framework"-like association in a Mongoose Schema where both fields are required?

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-28T14:09:02

Nevermind, figured where my error was:

 skin : {
     styleNum: {type: String, required: '{PATH} is required!'},
     headerLogo: {type: String, required: '{PATH} is required!'}
 },

Mongoose Schema with SubDocument fields that are required

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