mongoose: Saving a model fails with mongo error: MongoError: Unknown modifier: $pushAll

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Report a bug

What is the current behavior?

Test passing on local machine but failing on jenkins server with the exact same versions. The only difference is local is macos and jenkins is ubuntu as far as I can tell.

On MacOS Sierra, node 8.4 and 7.11, mongodb 3.4.7, and mongoose 4.11.7 the following test passes, but on our jenkins server with the exact same versions on an ubuntu 16.04 server fails.

  it("should successfully allow an alias that matches a service", async () => {
    const aliasTag = "this is a test";
    const appAlias = await AliasController.create(user, appAliasSpec);
    const serviceAlias = await AliasController.create(user, serviceAliasSpec);

    appAlias.aliases.push(aliasTag);
    await appAlias.save(); // This is the line that fails in jenkins

    serviceAlias.aliases.push(aliasTag);
    await serviceAlias.save();

    const confAppAlias = await AliasController.getById(appAlias._id);
    const confServiceAlias = await AliasController.getById(serviceAlias._id);
    expect(confAppAlias.aliases[1]).to.equal(aliasTag);
    expect(confServiceAlias.aliases[1]).to.equal(aliasTag);
  });

Here is the exact error that i’m getting:

{
	"message": "Unknown modifier: $pushAll",
	"name": "MongoError",
	"stack": "MongoError: Unknown modifier: $pushAll\n    at Function.MongoError.create (/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)\n    at toError (/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:139:22)\n    at /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb/lib/collection.js:1060:67\n    at /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:469:18\n    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:131:7)\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)",
	"code": 9
}

edit: Here is a more readable version of the stack trace

MongoError: Unknown modifier: $pushAll
    at Function.MongoError.create (/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)
    at toError (/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:139:22)
    at /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb/lib/collection.js:1060:67
    at /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/davis-cloudcontrol/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:469:18
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:131:7)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 27 (1 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Add `usePushEach` flag to Mongoose Schema Options (#23042) In order for devs to be able to work around the issues described in https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/5574 we need to be able ... — committed to DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped by stieg 6 years ago
Updates in song model. Was getting this error while adding the lyrics. Issue and patch mentioned here https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/5574#issuecomment-361657962 ```bundle.js:6882 Un... — committed to theparadoxer02/Lyrical-GraphQL by theparadoxer02 6 years ago
Fix https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/5574 , add nodemon and improve readme — committed to jrichardsz/attendance-system by jrichardsz 6 years ago
fix user registration https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/5574 — committed to coach-plus/server by Finkes 5 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Well that’s one problem, mongodb 3.5 is an unstable dev release and should not be used. $pushAll has been deprecated for a long time so perhaps they got rid of it in 3.5. @mbroadst can you clarify?

We added a usePushEach option to work around this a while back: https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/issues/4455 , that should be a workaround for this issue:

new Schema({ arr: [String] }, { usePushEach: true });

+120

vkarpov15 on Sep 26, 2017

@vkarpov15 Thanks for the fantastic library sir.

I, too, anm experiencing this issue with Mongoose 4.13.7 and MongoDB 3.6.0.

UPDATE: Adding usePushEach: true to schema options for models resolved this.

+40

chaddjohnson on Dec 20, 2017

Пробовал вот так не работает const mongoose = require (‘mongoose’) const Схема = mongoose.Schema

const UserSchema = new Schema ({ telegramId: { type: Number, required: true, usePushEach: true },

films: { type: [String], default: [] } })

mongoose.model (‘users’, UserSchema)

+34

rivers-lis on Jan 30, 2018

Всем привет, подскажите пожалуйста как исправить ошибку Неизвестный модификатор: $ pushAll

+19

rivers-lis on Jan 30, 2018

Как то вот так const mongoose = require(‘mongoose’) const Schema = mongoose.Schema

const UserSchema = new Schema({ telegramId: { type: Number, required: true },

films: {
    type: [String],
    default: []
}

})

new Schema({}, {usePushEach: true})

mongoose.model(‘users’, UserSchema)

+18

rivers-lis on Jan 30, 2018

@rivers-lis You have to add usePushEach to the schema options, not to the schema, like so:

new Schema({ ... }, { usePushEach: true });

+15

chaddjohnson on Jan 30, 2018

Mongoose 5 should not be affected by this issue, it doesn’t use $pushAll anywhere. If you get this error with mongoose 5, please open up an issue with code samples 👍

+11

vkarpov15 on Dec 31, 2017

@rankitbishnoi You can get around this temporarily by adding the usePushEach option on each schema definition in the options.

+10

dyladan on Dec 20, 2017

Updating the schema does not change this behavior. It’s not working for older data in the database already for 3.6.

Edit: Reverting back to version 3.4 solved the problem.

danieltanfh95 on Dec 31, 2017