Question: Can I ignore populate in some cases?

[klaveren]

I'm have setuped in Schema with { autopopulate: true }, but, some times, I don't need all informations, some times I just want return the specific field, but all populate fields are always returns too. Have some way to prevent populate fields in specifc cenarios, like as in query options or other way, becouse the autopopulate don't respect the select params, in my case, maybe this is a my mistake. Thanks and advance.

[vkarpov15]

You can disable autopopulate from Mongoose query options, for example:

    var bandSchema = new Schema({
      name: String,
      lead: { type: ObjectId, ref: 'people', autopopulate: true }
    });
    bandSchema.plugin(autopopulate);

    var Band = mongoose.model('Band', bandSchema, 'bands');
    // `{ autopopulate: false }` means skip autopopulate for this query
    Band.findOne({ name: "Guns N' Roses" }, {}, { autopopulate: false }, function(error, doc) {
      assert.ok(doc.lead instanceof mongoose.Types.ObjectId);
      assert.ok(!doc.populated('lead'));
    });

[klaveren]

You can disable autopopulate from Mongoose query options, for example:

    var bandSchema = new Schema({
      name: String,
      lead: { type: ObjectId, ref: 'people', autopopulate: true }
    });
    bandSchema.plugin(autopopulate);

    var Band = mongoose.model('Band', bandSchema, 'bands');
    // `{ autopopulate: false }` means skip autopopulate for this query
    Band.findOne({ name: "Guns N' Roses" }, {}, { autopopulate: false }, function(error, doc) {
      assert.ok(doc.lead instanceof mongoose.Types.ObjectId);
      assert.ok(!doc.populated('lead'));
    });

Very Many Thanks!! There is!