Virtual Populate not working for me, what i do wrong?

[jmtt89]

This are my schemas:

user.js

'use strict'

const { models, model, Schema } = require('mongoose')

const schema = new Schema(
    {
        name: {
            type: String,
            required: true,
        },
    },
    {
        timestamps: true,
        discriminatorKey: 'type',
    }
)

schema.virtual('posts', {
    ref: 'Post',
    localField: '_id',
    foreignField: 'user',
})

module.exports = models.User|| model('User', schema)

post.js

'use strict'

const { models, model, Schema } = require('mongoose')


const schema = new Schema(
    {
        text: {
            type: String,
            required: true,
        },
        user: {
            type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
            ref: 'User',
            required: true,
        },
    },
    {
        timestamps: true,
        discriminatorKey: 'type',
    }
)

module.exports = models.Post|| model('Post', schema)

And the Query:

const user = await UserModel.findById(req.params.id).populate('posts')

I don't know what i doing wrong, but populate is not returning anything

I turn on my mongoose debug flag to check what is the query for virtual populate and see that on my terminal:

Mongoose: users.findOne({ _id: new ObjectId("6182fce8c339b6f51c933eee") }, { projection: {} })
Mongoose: posts.find({ user: { '$in': [ new ObjectId("6182fce8c339b6f51c933eee") ], [Symbol(mongoose#trustedSymbol)]: true }}, { skip: 0, limit: 10, perDocumentLimit: undefined, projection: {} })

I do the query manually again removing [Symbol(mongoose#trustedSymbol)]: true

const posts = await PostModel.find({credential: { $in: [Types.ObjectId(req.params.id)]}})

and return the data, the terminal show

Mongoose: posts.find({ user: { '$in': [ new ObjectId("6182fce8c339b6f51c933eee") ] } }, { projection: {} })

[vkarpov15]

How are you determining that populate is not returning anything? Remember that virtuals don't end up in console.log() output unless you enable toObject: { virtuals: true } on your schema, or do console.log(user.toObject({ virtuals: true }))

[jmtt89]

@vkarpov15 you are absolutely right, I was not adding toObject: { virtuals: true } thanks a lot