How to insert an Array of Objects in Meteor WITHOUT autoform?

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The example i'm goint o use here is taken from http://autoform.meteor.com/quickform

I've been using autoform for a few projects, but i need to get this same behaviour without it, how could i do an insert of an Array of objects??

So here is the Schema definition you need with autoform

 items: {
  type: Array,
  optional: true,
  minCount: 0,
  maxCount: 5
 },
   "items.$": {
      type: Object
   },
   "items.$.name": {
      type: String
   },
   "items.$.quantity": {
      type: Number
   }

Next is the call to autoform to generete the form in the template

{{> quickForm id="demo" schema=schemaFromJSON type="method" meteormethod="demoSubmission"}}

With that in place you get a form, displaying both fields: name and quantity, plus a sign for ading more objects with those same fields, and when you actually submit the form it inserts all of your objects.

The HTML and CSS is not the problem

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1 Answers

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I'm not quite sure what you are asking. These are two ways of inserting arrays to collection:

// insert items one by one
// NOTE: Meteor doesn't allow inserting of arrays like `Items.insert(items)`
items.forEach(item => Items.insert(item));

// insert all items simultaneously by using raw mongo collection:
Items.rawCollection().insert(items);