Mongoose Error on .insertMany()

[Eduard_Radd]

I’ve looked everywhere and I cannot figure out why I get this error while I try to create and save multiple documents with Mongoose.

It is working to save individual documents, but when I run the script to add multiple documents with .insertMany() I get the following message in terminal and I have no clue what to do with it.

/Users/FruitsProjectMongoose/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:3519
        
        for (let i = 0; i < error.writeErrors.length; ++i) {
                                              ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')
    at /Users/FruitsProjectMongoose/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:3519:47
    at collectionOperationCallback (/Users/FruitsProjectMongoose/node_modules/mongoose/lib/drivers/node-mongodb-native/collection.js:194:24)
    at /Users/FruitsProjectMongoose/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:349:66
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

It would be an understatement to say that I have tried everything that I could think of/find across the web. I’ve messaged a few devs. and they’ve recommended me to try some things but no luck. I really need some help with this. I start to think it might be something wrong with my system.

I’ve installed MongoDB through HomeBrew and Mongoose through npm in the past two days so everything is up-to-date.

Here is my simple JS script:

const mongoose = require("mongoose");
mongoose.set('strictQuery', false);

// Connect to MongoDB by port and catch errors.
main().catch(err => console.log(err));

async function main() {
    await mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/fruitsDB')
    .then(() => console.log('Connected!'));


    // Defining a Model Schema.
    const Schema = mongoose.Schema;
    const fruitSchema = new Schema({
        name: {
            type: String,
            require: true
        },
        rating: {
            type: Number,
            require: true
        },
        review: {
            type: String,
            require: true
        }
    });

    const peopleSchema = new Schema({
        name: String,
        age: Number
    });


    // Create a Model.
    const Fruit = new mongoose.model("Fruit", fruitSchema);
    const People = new mongoose.model("People", peopleSchema);


    // Create & Save a Document.
    const fruit = new Fruit({
        name: "Banana",
        rating: 10,
        review: "Perfection!"
    });
    // await fruit.save();

    const people = new People({
        name: "Eduard",
        age: 25
    });
    // await people.save();


    // Create & Save docs. in Bulk.
    const kiwi = new Fruit({
        name: "Kiwi",
        rating: 9,
        review: "Great, kinda expensive!"
    });
    
    const orange = new Fruit({
        name: "Orange",
        rating: 6,
        review: "Too sweet."
    });

    const apple = new Fruit({
        name: "Apple",
        rating: 7,
        review: "Great fruit!"
    });

    Fruit.insertMany([kiwi, orange, apple], function(err) {
        if (err) {
            console.log(err);
        } else {
            console.log("Succesfully saved to fruitsDB");
        }
    });


    mongoose.connection.close();
};

MongoDB server is running on brew services start mongodb-community .

[G_G1 (G G)]

I encountered the same issue,

E:\Web Development Bootcamp\Projects\todolist-v2\node_modules\mongoose\lib\model.js:3519
for (let i = 0; i < error.writeErrors.length; ++i) {
^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘length’)
at E:\Web Development Bootcamp\Projects\todolist-v2\node_modules\mongoose\lib\model.js:3519:47
at collectionOperationCallback (E:\Web Development Bootcamp\Projects\todolist-v2\node_modules\mongoose\lib\drivers\node-mongodb-native\collection.js:150:26)
at Timeout. (E:\Web Development Bootcamp\Projects\todolist-v2\node_modules\mongoose\lib\drivers\node-mongodb-native\collection.js:177:11)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:564:17)
at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:507:7)

Node.js v18.13.0

when i change the localhost to 127.0.0.1 in the connection → It worked.
This may help you to narrow down the issue.

[Lauren_Robinette]

Can you send through an example of where you changed localhost to 127.0.0.1 in the connection? I’ve tried within app.listen and it didn’t work.

app.listen(3000, function() {
  console.log("Server started on port 3000");
});

[Jaydip_Baraiya]

I have facing this same issue. But after i change the localhost connection path with replacing localhost to
127.0.0.1 It works…

mongoose.connect("mongodb://localhost:27017/todolistDB", {
  useNewUrlParser: true,
  useUnifiedTopology: true,
});

mongoose.connect("mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/todolistDB", {
  useNewUrlParser: true,
  useUnifiedTopology: true,
});

[Alberto_Camacho]

I was stuck on this for a couple of hours. I tried multiple methods from stack overflow, and mongodb. I got it to work, not sure how accurate this is but this is the script i used. From my understanding else/if can no longer be used with insertMany. I believe that the ‘then’, and ‘catch’ solved this.

@Alberto_Camacho

const mongoose = require(‘mongoose’);

mongoose.connect(“mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/fruitsDB”)

const fruitSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
rating: Number,
review: String
});

const Fruit = mongoose.model(“Fruit”, fruitSchema);

const fruit = new Fruit({
name: “apple”,
rating: 7,
review: “Pretty solid as a fruit.”
});

fruit.save()

const personSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
age: Number
});

const Person = mongoose.model(“Person”, personSchema);

const person = new Person({
name: “John”,
age: 37
});

//person.save();

const kiwi = new Fruit({
name: “Kiwi”,
rating: 9,
review: “Great, kinda expensive!”
});

const orange = new Fruit({
name: “Orange”,
rating: 6,
review: “Too sweet.”
});

const apple = new Fruit({
name: “Apple”,
rating: 7,
review: “Great fruit!”
});

const newFruits = [kiwi, orange, apple];

Fruit.insertMany(newFruits)
.then(function () {
console.log(“Successfully saved defult items to DB”);
})
.catch(function (err) {
console.log(err);
});