How can I generate child model in mongoose

Question

I'm trying to model the following.

I have a parent model that is called Brick that has some attributes. There will be 5+ type of bricks that will all have their own specific attributes which are needed also.

I want to be able to select all Bricks of a certain customer id later, whatever the type (TwitterBrick, facebookBrick et cetera) is.

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

// set up a mongoose model
module.exports = mongoose.model('Brick', new Schema({ 
    type: String, 
    userid: { type: String, required: true},
    animationspeed: { type: Number, min: 1, max: 100 }, 
    socialsite: String,     // none, twitter, instagram
    socialsearchtags: String,
    tagline: { type: String, minlength:3,maxlength: 25 },

}));

An example for a child is TwitterBrick. for now it is:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
module.exports = mongoose.model('TwitterBrick', new Schema({ 
    bgColor1: String, 
    bgColor2: String,
    bannerBgColor1: String,
    bannerBgColor2: String,
}));

TwitterBrick should inherit the attributes of Brick, but I don't know how. Can you help me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Answer 1

My solution was to set a new "content" field in brickSchema, and split in different files:

brick.schema.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

    module.exports = { 
          type: String, 
          userid: { type: String, required: true},
          animationspeed: { type: Number, min: 1, max: 100 }, 
          socialsite: String,     // none, twitter, instagram
          socialsearchtags: String,
          tagline: { type: String, minlength:3,maxlength: 25 },
          content: {type:mongoose.Schema.Types.Mixed, required: false, default: null}
    }

brick.model.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

var BrickSchema = new Schema(require('brick.schema.js'));
module.exports = mongoose.model('defaultBrick', BrickSchema, 'Bricks');

twitterBrick.model.js

  var mongoose = require('mongoose');
  var Schema = mongoose.Schema;  
  var brickSchema = require('brick.schema.js');

  brickSchema.content = new Schema({
  bgColor1: String, 
  bgColor2: String,
  bannerBgColor1: String,
  bannerBgColor2: String,
});

var BrickSchema = new Schema(require('brick.schema.js'));
module.exports = mongoose.model('twitterBrick', BrickSchema, 'Bricks');

Hope it helps !