I've got a schema that looks a bit like:
var conversationSchema = new Schema({
created: { type: Date, default: Date.now },
updated: { type: Date, default: Date.now },
recipients: { type: [Schema.ObjectId], ref: 'User' },
messages: [ conversationMessageSchema ]
});
So my recipients collection, is a collection of object id's referencing my user schema / collection.
I need to populate these on query, so i'm trying this:
Conversation.findOne({ _id: myConversationId})
.populate('user')
.run(function(err, conversation){
//do stuff
});
But obviously 'user' isn't populating...
Is there a way I can do this?
Use the name of the schema path instead of the collection name:
Conversation.findOne({ _id: myConversationId})
.populate('recipients') // <==
.exec(function(err, conversation){
//do stuff
});