I'm a little confused reading the Mongoose documentation.
If I run a query in mongoose which matches no documents in the collection, what are the values of err
and results
in the callback function callback(err, results)
? I just don't know what Mongoose considers an "error". As a mathematician, returning the empty set (i.e. results
array empty) seems perfectly valid and shouldn't be an "error" – the query executed fine, there was just no matching documents. On the other hand, some may consider it an "error". From mongoose docs, either:
err
= null,results
= []err
= null,results
= nullerr
= error document,results
= null
Best Answer
It depends on the query. If it is a
find
, thenresults == []
. If it is afindOne
, thenresults == null
. No errors if everything else is ok.