Populate a mongoose model with a field that isn't an id

Question

Is it possible to populate a mongoose model with a field of a reference model that isn\'t the _id ... e.g. a username.

so something like

var personSc         


        

Answer 1

It seems they enforce to use _id, and maybe we can customize it in the future.

Here is the issue on Github https://github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose/issues/2562