node.js - How to define object in array in Mongoose schema correctly with 2d geo index

Question

I'm currently having problems in creating a schema for the document below. The response from the server always returns the "trk" field values as [Object]. Somehow I have no idea how this should work, as I tried at least all approaches which made sense to me ;-)

If this helps, my Mongoose version is 3.6.20 and MongoDB 2.4.7 And before I forget, it would be nice to also set it as Index (2d)

Original data:

{
    "_id": ObjectId("51ec4ac3eb7f7c701b000000"),
    "gpx": {
        "metadata": {
            "desc": "Nürburgring VLN-Variante",
            "country": "de",
            "isActive": true
        },
    "trk": [
    {
        "lat": 50.3299594,
        "lng": 6.9393006
    },
    {
        "lat": 50.3295046,
        "lng": 6.9390688
    },
    {
        "lat": 50.3293714,
        "lng": 6.9389939
    },
    {
        "lat": 50.3293284,
        "lng": 6.9389634
    }]
    }
}

Mongoose Schema:

var TrackSchema = Schema({
            _id: Schema.ObjectId,
            gpx: {
                metadata: {
                    desc: String,
                    country: String,
                    isActive: Boolean
                },
                trk: [{lat:Number, lng:Number}]
            }
        }, { collection: "tracks" });

The response from the Network tab in Chrome always looks like this (that's only the trk-part which is wrong) :

{ trk: 
      [ [Object],
        [Object],
        [Object],
        [Object],
        [Object],
        [Object],

I already tried different Schema definitions for "trk":

1. trk: Schema.Types.Mixed
2. trk: [Schema.Types.Mixed]
3. trk:[ { type:[Number], index: "2d" }]

Hope you can help me ;-)

Answer 1

You can declare trk by the following ways : - either

trk : [{
    lat : String,
    lng : String
     }]

or

trk : { type : Array , "default" : [] }

In the second case during insertion make the object and push it into the array like

db.update({'Searching criteria goes here'},
{
 $push : {
    trk :  {
             "lat": 50.3293714,
             "lng": 6.9389939
           } //inserted data is the object to be inserted 
  }
});

or you can set the Array of object by

db.update ({'seraching criteria goes here ' },
{
 $set : {
          trk : [ {
                     "lat": 50.3293714,
                     "lng": 6.9389939
                  },
                  {
                     "lat": 50.3293284,
                     "lng": 6.9389634
                  }
               ]//'inserted Array containing the list of object'
      }
});