[SOLVED] how to send regex to server side in meteor

how to send regex to server side in meteor

In my application, I'm building a query object some thing like below

Object {pointType: /analog/i, _id: Object}

I tried to store it in session variable,

Session.set("currentPointsQueryObject",queryObj);

Then on click event I'm getting this object

  var res= Session.get("currentPointsQueryObject");
  console.log(res);

but here I'm getting like below

Object {pointType: Object, _id: Object}

Meanwhile, I sent group_id to the server by geting it from session variable like

var group_id=Session.get("currentGroupId");

which is working fine(it is displaying id in server log)

Then, I've tried storing it in global variable, which returning as expected

like below on click event

Object {pointType: /analog/i, _id: Object}

but when I sent it to server side method (Immediate line after console.log() )

Meteor.call("updateGroupPoints",res,function(err,data){
        console.log("updated points");
        console.log(data);
    });

when I log res in server console, it is showing

{ pointType: {}, _id: { '$nin': [] } }

Althoug I have something in pointType, It is not passed to the server.

Anyone had idea, Is this the thing related storing?

Solution

You cannot directly serialize RegExp to EJSON, but you can:

var regexp = /^[0-9]+$/;
var serialized = regexp.source;

Send serialized and then deserialize:

new RegExp(serialized)