help with UUID in mongoose

[Raif Harik]

I have the _id in mongo set to a uuid via node plug in "node-uuid" when I look at the value in robomongo it looks like this

"_id" : UUID("5fe6075a-8157-4dfc-8aab-3316ea9cbf17"),

however when I use mongoose to retrieve the value and send it to the client I get a lot of strange characters.

"id":"�\u0007Z�WM���3\u0016ꜿ\u0017"

the schema I'm using is

_id: {
    type: String,
    default: '',
    trim: true
},

is there anyway to make this work?

Thanks,

R

[Leonardo S]

If you want to generate a valid random object id, you can use this function:

var crypto = require('crypto');

function randomObjectId() {

return crypto.createHash('md5').update(Math.random().toString()).digest('hex').substring(0,24);

}

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[Valeri Karpov]

AFAIK uuids are binary data, so not much surprise that the string version looks weird without a wrapper. Looks like node-uuid has wrappers that can take in binary data and output a user-friendly string - perhaps you should use those before passing the uuid up to the client?