meteor__microscope/lib/collections/posts.js

// Not a "var", to make it global.
Posts = new Mongo.Collection('posts');

Posts.allow({
  update: function (userId, post) {
    return ownsDocument(userId, post);
  },
  remove: function (userId, post) {
    return ownsDocument(userId, post);
  }
});

Posts.deny({
  update: function (userId, post, fieldNames) {
    // _.without() is like PHP array_diff($source, ...$keys).
    // May only edit the following two fields:
    return (_.without(fieldNames, "url", "title").length > 0);
  }
});

Posts.deny({
  // In a post edit, the update is performed by a $set modifier, with the same
  // fields as the base inserted post: url and title, so we can pass it to
  // the post validator as it currently stands.
  update: function (userId, post, fieldNames, modifier) {
    var errors = validatePost(modifier.$set);
    return errors.title || errors.url;
  }
});

validatePost = function (post) {
  var errors = {};
  if (!post.title) {
    errors.title = "Please fill in a headline";
  }
  if (!post.url) {
    errors.url = "Please fill in a URL";
  }

  return errors;
};

// This is in lib/ instead of server/ for latency compensation.
Meteor.methods({
  postInsert: function(postAttributes) {
    "use strict";
    check(this.userId, String); // Or Meteor.userId() ?
    check(postAttributes, {
      title: String,
      url: String
    });

    var errors = validatePost(postAttributes);
    if (errors.title || errors.url) {
      throw new Meteor.Error('invalid-post',
        "You must set a title and URL for your post");
    }

    var postWithSameLink = Posts.findOne({ url: postAttributes.url });
    if (postWithSameLink) {
      // Return to skip the insert.
      return {
        postExists: true,
        _id: postWithSameLink._id
      };
    }

    var user = Meteor.user();
    var post = _.extend(postAttributes, {
      userId: user._id,
      author: user.username,
      submitted: new Date(),
      commentsCount: 0
    });

    var postId =  Posts.insert(post);

    return {
      _id: postId
    };
  }
});