How to connect with custom MongoDB collections?

[jahirfiquitiva]

Hello... from what I've understood from documentation, next-auth will automatically generate collections for users and other stuff.

In my database, I already have a users collection, and the schema is something like:

name: string;
username: string;
email: string;
age: number;
gender: string;
phone: string;
city: string;
country: string;
resources: {
  type: [Schema.Types.ObjectId],
},

Since next-auth won't provide all of these, how can I create users with this custom model, with the data retrieved with next-auth.

I mean, I'm ok with some fields being empty. But would like next-auth to create users in this collection with this specific model, but also keep the other collections created by next-auth just as they are.

I'd really appreciate any guidance and/or help on how to achieve this.
Thanks in advance!

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[un-focused]

I'm fairly new to this library myself so take this with a grain of salt. I'm currently migrating users from my previous structure to this structure so I had to modify the schema to account for that.

I would fork the library (make your own copy of it) & then modify the models to work accordingly. You can see the models for the adapters here. Once done, look where it is being called & update the callers so that you pass the relevant data to the models.

Take a look at the adapters as they are in charge of creating the users here. There is an example adapter here.

Hope that guides you a bit

[jahirfiquitiva]

Thanks for the information. That looks like a huge amount of work but I'll take a look into it. 👌