Q + Mongoose from StackOverflow

q-mongoose-so.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongo://localhost/test');
var conn = mongoose.connection;

var users = conn.collection('users');
var channels = conn.collection('channels');
var articles = conn.collection('articles');

var insertUsers = Q.nfbind(users.insert.bind(users));
var insertChannels = Q.nfbind(channels.insert.bind(channels));
var insertArticles = Q.nfbind(articles.insert.bind(articles)); 

function getInsertedArticles(usersArray) {
    return insertUsers(usersArray).then(function (insertedUsers) {
        var channelsArray = insertedUsers.map(function (user) {
            return { userId: user._id };
        });
        return insertChannels(channelsArray).then(function (insertedChannels) {
            var articlesArray = insertedChannels.map(function (channel, i) {
                return { userId: users[i]._id, channelId: channel.id };
            });
            return insertArticles(articlesArray);
        });
    });
}

getInsertedArticles(someUsers).then(
    function (insertedArticles) {
        // you only get here if all three of the above steps succeeded
    },
    function (error) {
        // you get here if any of the above three steps failed
    }
)
.done();

Original code from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10545087/how-to-use-module-q-to-refactoring-mongoose-code

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongo://localhost/test');
var conn = mongoose.connection;

// insert users
conn.collection('users').insert([{/*user1*/},{/*user2*/}], function(err, docs) {
    var user1 = docs[0], user2 = docs[1];

    // insert channels
    conn.collection('channels').insert([{userId:user1._id},{userId:user2._id}], function(err, docs) {
        var channel1 = docs[0], channel2 = docs[1];

        // insert articles
        conn.collection('articles').insert([{userId:user1._id,channelId:channel1._id},{}], function(err, docs) {
            var article1 = docs[0], article2 = docs[1];
        }
    });
};

This should be labeled as an example for the node-mongodb-native driver and not Mongoose as only the native APIs are used here.

the original code is more readable and natural, and shorter, isn't it?

@newcoder it gets uglier when it you put error handling code.

I was hoping to see something simpler too. The problem here is the Mongoose promise implementation, right? I just want to be clear, so we can address this issue properly.

can you provide full code, i have tried to implement same thing on my server,,but i am getting error.