Ability to autopopulate with aggregation queries

[chaddjohnson]

Hi! Thanks for the great plugin.

I'd like to suggest autopopulation with aggregation queries. When I do an aggregate query, autopopulation does not seem to occur.

[vkarpov15]

@chaddjohnson that's by design right now. MongoDB aggregation can modify the shape of the document, so in general the output of the aggregation won't match the model's schema, so autopopulate won't work reliably. What are you trying to achieve with autopopulate for aggregations?

[chaddjohnson]

Ah, that is true and makes sense.

I was trying to select a random document from a collection using $sample which required use of aggregation. But I found a different (faster) approach which involves querying for a count and then using .find() and skipping a random number of documents.

Thanks for responding. I no longer have a strong use case for auto-population with aggregate queries.

Also, thanks so much for the autopopulate and for Mongoose. So super useful they are, and perfect.