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Meteor.user() not fully loaded after login

I am using Meteor 0.8.2 with accounts-facebook. I set up a limited publication for the users this way:

Meteor.publish('users', function () {
  return Meteor.users.find({}, {fields: {'profile.picture': 1, 'profile.gender':1, 'profile.type':1}, sort: {'profile.likes': -1}});
});

Now this works great: when I requests a user list from the client I get a list of all users, with the current user's fields all shown and only the 3 published fields for the others. Except: right after login.

When I login and type Meteor.user(), here is what I get:

_id: "uACx6sTiHSc4j4khk"
profile: Object { gender="male", type="1", picture="http://....jpg"}

This stays like that until I refresh the page using the browser button. After refreshing, Meteor.user() gives all the fields available, while Meteor.users.find() still gives the correct restrictions. (except for the current user of course)

Why does my current user not get all its fields right away? I read about a Meteor.userLoaded() method used to wait for the user to be loaded, but it seems to be obsolete in the latest version.

Solution

  • As Andrew explained, and as I kinda thought, what happened is that there is another "hidden" publication for the current user, which conflicts with mine. All I had to do in order to fix this was to simply exclude the current user from my publication, since it is already fully published by default:

    Meteor.publish('users', function () {
  return Meteor.users.find({_id:{$ne: this.userId}}, {fields: {'profile.picture': 1, 'profile.gender':1, 'profile.type':1}, sort: {'profile.likes': -1}});
});

    This simple $ne does it for me.