Does Mongoose support the Mongodb `findAndModify` method?

Question

I would like to use findAndModify to atomically increment a field, using Mongoose.

However, the code below throws the error "TypeError: Object # has no method 'findAndModify'":

// defining schema for the "counters" table
var tableSchema = new Schema({
    _id: String,
    next: Number        
});

// creating table object for the counters table
var counters_table = mongoose.model('counters', tableSchema);
var tableObj = new counters_table();    

// increment the "next" field on the table object
var query = {_id: 'messagetransaction'};
var update = {'$inc': {next: 1}};
var ret = tableObj.findAndModify(query, [], update, true, true, function(err) {
     if (err) { 
         throw err;
     }
     else { 
         console.log("updated!");
     }
});

Answer 1

The feature is not well (read: at all) documented, but after reading through the source code, I came up with the following solution.

Create your collection schema.

var Counters = new Schema({
  _id: String,
  next: Number     
});

Create a static method on the schema which will expose the findAndModify method of the model's collection.

Counters.statics.findAndModify = function (query, sort, doc, options, callback) {
  return this.collection.findAndModify(query, sort, doc, options, callback);
};

Create your model.

var Counter = mongoose.model('counters', Counters);

Find and modify!

Counter.findAndModify({ _id: 'messagetransaction' }, [], { $inc: { next: 1 } }, {}, function (err, counter) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('updated, counter is ' + counter.next);
});

Bonus

Counters.statics.increment = function (counter, callback) {
  return this.collection.findAndModify({ _id: counter }, [], { $inc: { next: 1 } }, callback);
};

Counter.increment('messagetransaction', callback);