MongoDB ObjectID conversion in dove

[lukashass]

I recently started converting an app using dove pre-17 to 5.0.0. This brought along the switch to @feathersjs/mongodb and with it the conversion of strings to ObjectIDs in a resolver instead of in mongoose.

Since feathers-casl calls _get internally, the conversion is skipped. My first idea was to use resolveQueryObjectId manually when defining my rules e.g.: can('read', 'users', { _id: resolveQueryObjectId({ $in: userIdsManagedByUser }) });
This breaks the ability in the frontend since IDs are strings in the frontend.

Is this something we can address in feathers-casl or do you have any better ideas to solve this problem?

Greetings from Kiel :)

[fratzinger]

Moin.

I don't use NoSQL at all so I don't have the same problem. There are multiple possibilities:

1. just use get instead of _get which maybe has performance downsides
2. introduce 'hooks' to casl explicitely. Something like:

authorize({
  adapter: 'mongodb',
  hooks: {
    around: { ... }
  }
})

3. Take the rules on the frontend and transform the objectIds to strings. <- (this is maybe the quickest solution for your problem as of now)