Why may a mongoose document not get saved?

[vain glories]

I've been using this middleware for sometime, then suddenly it stops working.

var body = req.body;

new ordersModel (body).save(function(err, newOrder, rowCount) {
	if (err) throw err;
	console.log(rowCount) // logs 1

	updateEstimatedTime(newOrder); /* this function runs but inside
   it, trying to find this same document returns null,
   meaning it was never saved */
});

If I try something like

var pleaseWork = new ordersModel (body);
console.log(pleaseWork) // dumps a loaded mongoose object
pleaseWork.save(function(err, newOrder, rowCount) {

So why doesn't it get persisted? I also tried reloading the server several times with this at the top just in case

ordersModel.find({}, 'customer', function (err, docs) {
	if (err) throw err;
	console.log(docs)
})

But it just returns the documents that existed before this fault began. I've triple checked the model name, it's the same all over the script. What could the code be lacking?
I have seen some examples also that suggested something in the region of

var pleaseWork = new ordersModel ();
pleaseWork.foo = body.foo;
pleaseWork.bar = body.bar;
pleaseWork.john = body.john;

console.log(pleaseWork) // dumps a loaded mongoose object
pleaseWork.save(function(err, newOrder, rowCount) {

Now, this is not feasible for me; the ordersModel table has more than 10 columns-- dropping the body object in the model's constructor is sane enough and worked the last time the program was run.

[DaneiL]

Here is a code that i use with moongose and mongo db, i don't know where should be your error, maybe with the parameters of middleware functions.

exports.newUser = function(request, response) {        console.log(request.body);        var user = new User({            "fullname": request.body.fullname,            "cpfcnpj": request.body.cpfcnpj,            "email": request.body.email,            "phone": request.body.phone,            "login": request.body.login,            "password": request.body.password        });        user.save(function(error) {            if (error) response.status(500).send(error);            else response.status(200).send("user registered");        });    };

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[Alex Wells]

What does 'req.body' contain? You have no validation of the data before the Model instantiation, so I'm assuming all of your validation is inside the Mongoose to check fields and so on.

My suspicion is that you have a piece of data in 'req.body' that Mongoose is not happy with.

get the body, create a simple JS file called test, run the same statement without the other stuff and see if you get a new record in your database. If you do, something weird! If not, it's likely that it's not down to your project, but the data you're receiving.