How would you represent an object that can be of multiple types, when storing it as a document in MongoDB?
- by blueberryfields
Somewhat related to this question, say that I have an object category which, depending on which type of object I have, has different restrictions on what it contains. (if you can reword the previous sentence to make more sense I'd appreciate it)
For example
var SomeSchema = new Schema({
_id: ObjectID,
[... large number of common fields ...]
type: //Restricted somehow to members of a fixed array
data: //depending on type, this might be restricted - sometimes an integer, sometimes array, etc...
});
What's the idiosyncratic method for defining this type of schema? Is it appropriate to define a single schema, and handle the types inside of it's members, or am I better off with separate schema for each type?
