Mongoose populate embedded

Question

I use Mongoose.js and cannot solve problem with 3 level hierarchy document.

There 2 ways to do it.

First - without refs.

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Answer 1

I'm late to this, but I wrote a Mongoose plugin that makes it extremely simple to perform deep model population. For your example, you can do this to populate b and c:

A.find({}, function (err, docs) {
  A.deepPopulate(docs, 'b.c', cb)
}

You can also specify Mongoose populate options for each of the populated paths, like this:

A.deepPopulate(docs, 'b.c', {
  b: { 
    select: 'name'
  }
}, cb)

Check out the plugin documentation for more information.