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ncbl

Reputation: 1295

Mongoose populate method

I am having the most awful trouble trying to get the populate feature in mongoose to work. I have looked at all the threads here on SO and nothing has helped. My schema is mapped out below.

'use strict';

/**
 * Module dependencies.
 */
var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
  Schema = mongoose.Schema;


/**
 * Prodcut Feature Extra
 */
var extra = new Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    default: '',
    required: 'Please fill Product name',
    trim: true
  },
  price: {
    type: Number,
    default: 0
  },
  description: {
    type: String,
    trim: true
  },
  toolTip: {
    type: String,
    trim: true,
    min: 3,
    max: 140
  },
  created: {
    type: Date,
    default: Date.now
  },
  user: {
    type: Schema.ObjectId,
    ref: 'User'
  }
});

/**
 * Product Feature Schema
 */
var feature = new Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    default: '',
    required: 'Please fill feature name',
    trim: true
  },
  created: {
    type: Date,
    default: Date.now
  },
  user: {
    type: Schema.ObjectId,
    ref: 'User'
  }
});

/**
 * Product Schema
 */
var ProductSchema = new Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    default: '',
    required: 'Please fill Product name',
    trim: true
  },
  created: {
    type: Date,
    default: Date.now
  },
  features: [feature],
  extras: [extra],
  user: {
    type: Schema.ObjectId,
    ref: 'User'
  }
});

mongoose.model('Feature', feature);
mongoose.model('Extra', extra);
mongoose.model('Product', ProductSchema);

I have tried all of the following queries in a Mongoose Repl but nothing works

 models.Product.find().populate("Extra", "name").exec()
 models.Product.find().populate({path: "extras", location: "Extra"}).exec()
 models.Product.find().populate('extras', 'name').exec()
 models.Product.find().populate('extras', 'Extra').exec()

Does anyone have any suggestions? This is killing me!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 377

Answers (1)

Muthu Rg
Muthu Rg

Reputation: 662

Just curious!

This initialization below, isn't has to be done before referencing in ProductSchema?

mongoose.model('Feature', feature);
mongoose.model('Extra', extra);

Something like this

mongoose.model('Feature', feature);
mongoose.model('Extra', extra);

var ProductSchema = new Schema({
name: {
 type: String,
 default: '',
 required: 'Please fill Product name',
 trim: true
},
created: {
  type: Date,
  default: Date.now
},
features: [ {
  type: Schema.ObjectId,
  ref: 'Feature'
}],
extras: [ {
  type: Schema.ObjectId,
  ref: 'Extra'
}],
user: {
  type: Schema.ObjectId,
  ref: 'User'
}
});

Than this should work

models.Product.find().populate("extras")

Upvotes: 0

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