Mongoose static methods autocompletion in WebStorm

please can you provide the whole User module definition?

// grab the things we need
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var async = require('async');
var config = require('../config/config');

// create a schema
var IdConnectionSchema = new Schema({
    name: String, // SQL(Live)
});

// on every save, add the date
IdConnectionSchema.pre('save', function(next) {
    // get the current date
    var currentDate = new Date();

    // change the updated_at field to current date
    this.updated_at = currentDate;

    // if created_at doesn't exist, add to that field
    if (!this.created_at)
        this.created_at = currentDate;

    next();
});

// Model level operations.
// Could define this method in the controller, but not the right place.
IdConnectionSchema.statics.doSomething = function(doSomethingCallback) {
    // do whatever
    doSomethingCallback(null);
};

var IDConnection = mongoose.model('ID_Connection', IdConnectionSchema);

// make this available to our users in our Node applications
module.exports = IDConnection;

I would like the doSomething method be in autocomplete whenever I do 

var IdConnection = require('./idConnectionModel');

idConnection.doSomething.

c.f: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/guide.html (statics section)

I can see 2 problems here:

- WebStorm knows nothing about Mongoose 'methods' and 'statics' objects, it has no way to understand that these objects are used to create custom instance and static methods for Models. Understanding these constructions requires providing special support for Mongoose

- completion doesn't work when re-exporting module instance (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-17099), so neither predefined nor custom methods are available in completion if Model is defined as a separate module

Any chance you could implement special support for Mongoose ? 
It is a VERY popular module for Node.JS and I'm sure it could benefit lots of developers and this way you could acquire lots of new customers which feel NodeJS support as of today is not good enough...

Thanks for your help.

Anyway thanks for your help and swift response.

Can you think of any workaround in the meantime ?
Thanks

You can try using JSDoc here... for example:

var userSchema = new Schema({
    name: String,
    password: String
});
/**
 *  @memberOf User#
 */
userSchema.methods.findSimilarNames = function(cb) {
    
};
/**
 *
 * @memberOf User
 */
userSchema.statics.findByName = function(name, cb) {
    
};

/** @class User */
var User = mongoose.model('User', userSchema);

module.exports = User;

Thanks a lot, this is of great help!!! 
Do you know if you could implement seemless integration of Mongoose package inside Jetbrains suite

Please feel free to file a request for this feature to youtrack, https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WEB

Go to Preferences . Languages&Frameworks . Javascript . Libraries . Download

scroll down to mongoose, select it, press "Download and install".

In case it isn't obvious, what you're doing is installing the typescript definitions for typescript code to understand mongoose.  Webstorm can use these to understand plain JavaScript, too.  

@Estaub2:

Done that!

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This is still an issue and I'm trying to reproduce:

user-model.js

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const UserSchema = mongoose.Schema({
    name: {type: String}
});

const User = module.exports = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);

module.exports.getByID = function (id) {

 return User.findById(id)

};

some-controller.js

Whereas when i do this:

const User = module.exports.UserModel = mongoose.model('User', UserSchema);

I do not get 'direct' autocompletion, but at least Webstorm doesn't complain about 'unresolved variable':

In VS Code i.e it does work. Can we get a fix please? I DO LOVE JETBRAINS! :)

this issue is tracked as https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-26542, please follow it for updates