This package augments Mongo.Collection (and the deprecated Meteor.Collection) and allows you to later lookup a Mongo Collection instance by the collection name.

$ meteor add dburles:mongo-collection-instances

Books = new Mongo.Collection('books');

Mongo.Collection.get('books').insert({ name: 'test' });

Mongo.Collection.get('books').findOne({ name: 'test' });

Returns the collection instance.

• name (String)
• options (Object) [optional]
  • options.connection (A connection object)

Returns an array of objects containing:

• name (The name of the collection)
• instance (The collection instance)
• options (Any options that were passed in on instantiation)

It's possible to have more than one collection with the same name if they're on a different connection. In order to lookup the correct collection instance, you can pass in a second argument. An object containing the connection object.

For example:

connection = DDP.connect('http://localhost:3005');

Foo1 = new Mongo.Collection('foo'); // local
Foo2 = new Mongo.Collection('foo', { connection: connection });

Mongo.Collection.get('foo') // returns instance of Foo1

Mongo.Collection.get('foo', { connection: connection }); // returns instance of Foo2

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