message: path is required

Question

Hi I'm trying to create a new subdocument via mongoose, but i'm getting the following messages when I execute the POST method in Postman:

{
  "message": "Location validation failed",
  "name": "ValidationError",
  "errors": {
    "reviews.1.reviewText": {
      "message": "Path `reviewText` is required.",
      "name": "ValidatorError",
      "properties": {
        "type": "required",
        "message": "Path `{PATH}` is required.",
        "path": "reviewText"
      },
      "kind": "required",
      "path": "reviewText"
    },
    "reviews.1.rating": {
      "message": "Path `rating` is required.",
      "name": "ValidatorError",
      "properties": {
        "type": "required",
        "message": "Path `{PATH}` is required.",
        "path": "rating"
      },
      "kind": "required",
      "path": "rating"
    },
    "reviews.1.author": {
      "message": "Path `author` is required.",
      "name": "ValidatorError",
      "properties": {
        "type": "required",
        "message": "Path `{PATH}` is required.",
        "path": "author"
      },
      "kind": "required",
      "path": "author"
    }
  }
}

Here is my DB Schema for Locations:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var reviewSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    author: {type: String, required: true},
    rating: {type: Number, required: true, min: 0, max: 5},
    reviewText: {type: String, required: true},
    createdOn: {type: Date, "default": Date.now}
});

var openingTimeSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    days: {type: String, required: true},
    opening: String,
    closing: String,
    closed: {type: Boolean, required: true}
});

var locationSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    name: {type: String, required: true},
    address: String,
    rating: {type: Number, "default":0, min: 0,  max: 5},
    facilities: [String],
    coords: {type: [Number], index:'2ndsphere'},
    openingTimes: [openingTimeSchema],
    reviews: [reviewSchema]
});

mongoose.model('Location', locationSchema);

Here the controller launched under router.post('/locations/:locationid/reviews', ctrlReviews.reviewsCreate); routing:

//reviews.js
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Loc = mongoose.model('Location');

module.exports.reviewsCreate = function (req, res) {
    var locationid = req.params.locationid;
    if(locationid){
        Loc
            .findById(locationid)
            .select('reviews')
            .exec(
                function(err, location){
                    if(err){
                        sendJsonResponse(res, 400, err);
                    } else{
                        console.log(location);
                        doAddReview(req, res, location);
                    }
                }
            );
    } else{
        sendJsonResponse(res, 400, {
            "message" : "Not found, locationid required"
        });
    }
};
// START - Functions for review create  //////////////////////////////////////
var doAddReview = function(req, res, location){
    if(!location){
        sendJsonResponse(res, 404, "locationid not found");
    } else{
        location.reviews.push({
            author: req.body.author,
            rating: req.body.rating,
            reviewText: req.body.reviewText
        });

        location.save(function(err, location){
            var thisReview;
            if(err){
                //sendJsonResponse(res, 400, err);
                sendJsonResponse(res, 400, err);
            } else{
                updateAverageRating(location._id);
                thisReview = location.reviews[location.reviews.length - 1];
                sendJsonResponse(res, 201, thisReview);
            }
        }); 
    }
};

var updateAverageRating = function(locationid){
    console.log("Update rating average for", locationid);
    Loc
        .findById(locationid)
        .select('reviews')
        .exec(
            function(err, location){
                if(!err){
                    doSetAverageRating(location);
                }
            }
        );
};

var doSetAverageRating = function(location){
    var i, reviewCount, ratingAverage, ratingTotal;
    if(location.reviews && location.reviews.length > 0){
        reviewCount = location.reviews.length;
        ratingTotal = 0;
        for(i=0; i<reviewCount; i++){
            ratingTotal = ratingTotal + location.reviews[i].rating;
        }
        ratingAverage = parseInt(ratingTotal / reviewCount, 10);
        location.rating = ratingAverage;
        location.save(function(err){
            if(err){
                console.log(err);
            } else{
                console.log("Average rating updated to", ratingAverage);
            }
        });
    }
};

I've seen that error pops when the location.save function is executed. I'm learning MEAN Stack from a book, so you'll be able to download the complete code for this chapter here: https://github.com/simonholmes/getting-MEAN/tree/chapter-06

I've tried replacing the code of my locations.js and reviews.js files from app_api/controllers folder, but at this point the application crashes, I guess because other files needs to be updated so. So I'm stuck there.

Does anyone understand why it would be happening?

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

He bro.. Check this image.. I was also facing same problem.. and here is what I was doing wrong.

Solution 2

I believe your problem might be that body-parser is not configured.

Try npm installing body-parser, then import it at the top of your main server file:

bodyParser = require('body-parser');

Finally, configure it for use. This will allow you to use x-www-form-urlencoded:

// Setting up basic middleware for all Express requests
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false })); // Parses urlencoded bodies
app.use(bodyParser.json()); // Send JSON responses

Solution 3

Check your 

    req.body.author,
    req.body.rating,
    req.body.reviewText


They must be coming as empty string 

Comments

[David Meents]

Had a similar problem a bit ago happen to me and something along this was what solved it.

[AtomicNation]

Joshua I have it configured this way already, but I do not discard that the issue comes from some parse error, as each time I install a module I'm facing several warnings like this: "npm WARN EJSONPARSE Failed to parse json", maybe this is something related, but I couldn't find any solution for this (cache clear doesn't solve).

[Hashmatullah Noorzai]

You are a life saver man