User.findOrCreate is not a function

[Arunps94]

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[colmer]

HI @Arunps94, User.findOrCreate must be your own method.

[humaidk2]

Hi,
Just to add to that, User.findOrCreate is the method used to insert the user's data into your own database, once the data has been retrieved from google's api.
You can use any other database insertion method as long as you call the callback cb(null,user) on successful insertion and cb(error,user) on error or if you aren't using a database, just call cb(null,profile).
Basically the second argument for the callback method will be your session data, accessible through req.session.passport.user

[sharmadeep698]

hey ,
just to make that code working, try adding a npm package which will make findorcreate a proper function to work with. for more

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-findorcreate

[DaminiPandey]

By simply installing mongoose-findorcreate (npm package) ,requiring it in your app.js and adding it as a plugin in your schema would make this function work as it is!

[pablomusumeci]

@Arunps94 Can you please close this issue? It doesn't seem to be related to this library at all. Thanks!

[binayak597]

See, This is not a method of mongoose it is actually a npm package named "mongoose-findOrCreate". You have to install and require it on your project inorder to use this. Actually under this package there are two mongoose methods have implemented by the developers which are findOne() and save() and they have bounded these two methods on this package.

✔ https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-findorcreate