subscriptions should support MongoDb ObjectIDs serialization

[apheliagames]

just tried to use some MongoDB ObjectId fields in a subscription....
here's an example class:

public class TestObjectID :MongoDocument
    {
        // Global properties
        public ObjectId TestID { get; set; }
        public string name { get; set; }
        
    }

i needed this for cross-referencing to other collections.

it gets serialized, but the TestID object itself gets only an empty ObjectId "000000000000000000000000".

I should mention, that the document itself, so the _id Object ( in the same format and written by mongodb driver) gets serialized well at all.

All fine when i change back to strings, but it would be a nice feature for security reasons...

Maybe it should be implemented in future releases. Very useful for developers who are handling MongoDB document r/w directly on the backend....

[doctorpangloss]

Yeah they definitely do not support object IDs. I think I'd have to rethink this concept of having things inherit from a MongoDocument...

[apheliagames]

Thanks for your fast answer….yeah it would be really cool if we could use native BSON ObjectIds here… I’m currently using GUIDs instead for referencing other collections ( JSONFX is able to serialize it as Guids if they are strings in the document) but I can’t use GUIDs as document ids… Meteor is unfortunately not supporting this... Especially if you handle all database stuff on a backend server directly, it's very "comfortable" to use native ObjectIds. Keep up the great work, the rest works great and reliable!