Setting Meteor Session from the "Server" - or really?

README.md

This is probably bad design, Don't do this in real life.

I'm writing this gist in response to a comment on forums.meteor.com

I guess it's working... I wonder what is actually happening on the server side of things :X

Heh, oh well.

Thanks for the pointers aadams

suggestion_box.js

... Other imports, etc...

import { addSuggestion } from '../../../api/suggestions/suggestions_methods'

... skipping code ...

addSuggestion.call(newSuggestion, (error, result) => {
  if (error) {
    // Something really bad has happened...
    console.log(error)
  } else {
    // Success, clear the suggestion box
    this.setState(this.setDefaultState())
    console.log(result)
  }
})

suggestion_method.js

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor'
import { ValidatedMethod } from 'meteor/mdg:validated-method';
import { Session } from 'meteor/session'

import { Suggestions } from './suggestions'

import _ from 'lodash'
import moment from 'moment'

export const addSuggestion = new ValidatedMethod({
  name: 'suggestion.add',
  validate() {  }, // Install `meteor add audit-argument-checks`
  run(incommingSuggestion) {
    let currentUser = Meteor.user()

    if (!currentUser) {
      Session.set('showLoginModal', true)
      throw new Meteor.Error("not-logged-in", "An account is required to submit a new idea.", "addSuggestion method")
    } else {
      let suggestion = _.extend(incommingSuggestion, {
        userId: currentUser._id,
        score: 0,
        timestamp: moment().toDate(),
      })

      return Suggestions.insert(suggestion)
    }
  }
})