Not populating subdocuments of an embedded array

[bam-tbf]

Hi. In my User schema I have an embedded array of schema type UserPermission. Even though the autopopulate option is set on some paths inside of UserPermission they are not being autopopulated when the User document is loaded. Both User and UserPermission have the autopopulate plugin enabled. Other autopopulated fields are populating as expected.

I suspect this is because the array is an embedded array, rather than array of refs that need to be populated, correct?

In the short term, what is the easiest way to manually trigger autopopulation of the embedded array after User is loaded?

In the medium/long term, shouldn't this situation be handled by the plugin?

Thank you.

[vkarpov15]

Can you please clarify your issue with some code samples? Translating prose to code is error prone.

[ghmendonca]

This is not working at all.

Supose that you have the models A and B. In the A model, you define an array of B.

let ASchema = new Schema({ arrayB: { type: [B], autopopulate: true } })

And inside B, you put your relation to another model (let's call model C).

let BSchema = new Schema({ arrayC: { type: [{type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "C"}], autopopulate: true } })

Now if you do A.find(), it will not return the arrayC populated, it will return only an array of object ids..

[vkarpov15]

Do this instead:

let BSchema = new Schema({ arrayC: { type: [{type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "C", autopopulate: true }] } })