Can't get Mongoose.js Subdocument Array to populate

Question

I\'m using mongoose.js on a node.js server connecting to mongodb and I have a mongoose model like the following

SubSchema = new Schema({
    _member:     {type:          


        

Answer 1

@leesei: I can't comment on your post (too little rep), so I leave this as a separate answer.

In mongoose 3.6 subdoc population still doesn't work, the issue github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose/issues/1381 has been closed 7 months ago with the following solution as a workaround. I had to change it slightly to merge the populated subdocument back to the main document.

The subdocument's model Story has to be specified explicitly:

Person.findById(user1._id).populate("stories")
    .exec(function(err, doc {
         Story.populate(doc.stories, {path: 'creator'}, function (err, stories) {
             doc.stories = stories;
             return doc;
         })
})

In the solution above this works:

Story.populate(doc.stories, {path: 'creator'}, callback)

but this still won't work:

Story.populate(doc, {path: 'stories.creator'}, callback)