Getting data from MongoDB with Mongoose
Ah this is a nice one, you're trying to do something in an synchronous style:
Users.find({}, function (err, user){ // here you are iterating through the users // but you don't know when it will finish});// no users here because this gets called before any user// is inserted into the arrayconsole.log(returnObject); Instead you should do something like this:
var callback = function (obj) { console.log(obj);}Users.find({}, function (err, user){ var counter = user.length; _.each(user, function(userDoc) { if (counter) { returnObject.list.push(userDoc); // we decrease the counter until // it's 0 and the callback gets called counter--; } else { // since the counter is 0 // this means all the users have been inserted into the array callback(returnObject); } });});
do a util.inspect(user) to see what you have before the each loop.