Embedded Documents ================== Embedded documents are documents with schemas of their own that are part of other documents (as items within an array). Embedded documents enjoy all the same features as your models. Defaults, validators, middleware. Whenever an error occurs, it's bubbled to the `save()` error callback, so error handling is a snap! Mongoose interacts with your embedded documents in arrays _atomically_, out of the box. ## Definition and initialization When you define a Schema like this: var Comments = new Schema({ title : String , body : String , date : Date }); var BlogPost = new Schema({ author : ObjectId , title : String , body : String , date : Date , comments : [Comments] , meta : { votes : Number , favs : Number } }); mongoose.model('BlogPost', BlogPost); The `comments` key of your `BlogPost` documents will then be an instance of `DocumentArray`. This is a special subclassed `Array` that can deal with casting, and has special methods to work with embedded documents. ## Adding an embedded document to an array // retrieve my model var BlogPost = mongoose.model('BlogPost'); // create a blog post var post = new BlogPost(); // create a comment post.comments.push({ title: 'My comment' }); post.save(function (err) { if (!err) console.log('Success!'); }); ## Removing an embedded document BlogPost.findById(myId, function (err, post) { if (!err) { post.comments[0].remove(); post.save(function (err) { // do something }); } }); ## Finding an embedded document by id `DocumentArray`s have an special method `id` that filters your embedded documents by their `_id` property (each embedded document gets one): Consider the following snippet: post.comments.id(my_id).remove(); post.save(function (err) { // embedded comment with id `my_id` removed! });