Setting Meteor user roles in fixtures not working

Question

I have a Meteor application with the following fixtures code:

/imports/startup/server/fixtures.js

import { Meteor } from 'meteor/meteor'
import { Accounts } from 'meteor/accounts-base'

if(Meteor.users.find().count === 0) {
    const users = [
        {username: "admin", email: "[email protected]", profile: { name: "Admin" }, roles: ["admin"]},
        {username: "school", email: "[email protected]", profile: { name: "School Name" }, roles: ["school"]},
        {username: "teacher", email: "[email protected]", profile: { name: "Teacher" }, roles:["teacher"]}
    ]

    for(let user of users) {
        Accounts.createUser({
            username: user.username,
            email: user.email,
            password: "123456",
            profile: {
                name: user.profile.name,
            },
            roles: user.roles
        })
    }
}

On starting up my project all the accounts are created successfully except none of them have the roles field. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

What you are doing wrong is that you pass options into the function that are not accepted by it. createUser options only accepts username, email, password and profile. You should study the docs, meteors API is very well documented.

Now, to set the user roles you have a couple of options, one of them would be use the _id of the newly created user, which is returned by createUser and then set the roles like so:

const userId = Accounts.createUser({
        username: user.username,
        email: user.email,
        password: "123456",
        profile: {
            name: user.profile.name,
        });
Roles.addUsersToRoles(userId, user.roles)

assuming that this is server side code. On the client this won't work. You could also set the roles directly using a Meteor.users.update(); call or fiddle around with Accounts.onCreateUser callback, which is very nice for manipulating everything that you pass into createUser. Hope that helps.