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Posted by dylan kane
dylan kane
2,772 Points

Having a user add a destructible class to a mongo db... How should I approach this?

How can I have a user add something to database (mongo db) for as long as they need it. For example they would make a chat lobby, which would be added to a database of a bunch of peoples chat lobbies, and then once they were done using it, the database would delete it. Any help would be great, thanks!

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Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points
Casey Ydenberg
Casey Ydenberg
15,622 Points

The real question you're asking is how to express "done using it" in terms a computer can understand. How do you know when a user is done with it? When they say they are? When they close the page? If the chat lobby remains idle for X days?

There are tonne of tutorials on adding and removing records from Mongo; I suspect that's not what you're looking for ...