Having recently delved into mongoose, I must apologize in advance for any misuse of terminology on my part.
Below is the content of my routes file:
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
const passport = require('passport');
const controller = require('./clubController');
const authGuard = passport.authenticate('jwt', { session: false });
const verifyUser = require('./clubController').verifyUser;
const isSiteAdmin = require('./clubController').isSiteAdmin;
router.param('id', controller.params);
router.route('/')
.post(authGuard, controller.newClub)
.get(controller.allPublicClubs);
router.route('/:id')
.put(authGuard, verifyUser(), controller.editClub)
.get(controller.getClub);
router.route('/private')
.get(controller.allPrivateClubs);
module.exports = router;
controller.params
exports.params = function(req, res, next, id) {
Club.findById(id)
.populate('creator teams', '-password -email -role')
.exec()
.then(function(club) {
if (!club) {
return res.status(404).send({ msg: 'No Club exists with that ID' });
} else {
req.club = club;
next();
}
}, function(err) {
// error handling
next(err);
});
};
controller.params activates when I send a GET request to /private. In theory, the params middleware I've set up should only activate when a called route uses an id parameter.
The value for the id argument in controller.params is being set as private, which corresponds to the route.
The error message I'm getting is as follows:
CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value "private" at path "_id" for model "club"This was all functioning correctly yesterday; I have no clue what could have changed to cause it to stop working now.