Fix image populate

[lauriejim]

My PR is a:

• 💥 Breaking change
• 🐛 Bug fix Models not returning images on relations #2118
• 💅 Enhancement
• 🚀 New feature

Main update on the:

• Admin
• Documentation
• Framework
• Plugin

Manual testing done on the following databases:

• Not applicable
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Postgres

Description:

When you receive populated data, morph relations are omit and it's not good for media (images)
So now we auto populate morph relations. You will receive images.

[Aurelsicoko]

We automatically with two 'l'

[Aurelsicoko]

LGTM 👍

[jonmhutch7]

Hey @lauriejim
This is pretty soon after your commit, but I updated strapi instance and also the strapi-hook-mongoose library and still am not seeing images on old or newly created relations. Will this require an entirely new database?

[lauriejim]

It's because it's actually not published on npm.
You will have to wait the alpha.22 version (will come at the beginning of next week)

[jonmhutch7]

@lauriejim Unfortunately this didn't solve any existing issues with relations and images. Will this only apply to newly created contentTypes?

[lauriejim]

What is the request you did ?

[josepuma]

It didn't solve my issue. I still can't get images on relations

[zzmingo]

+1, it didn't solve. strapi version is 3.0.0-alpha.25

[outmost]

I'm seeing the same issues with 3.0.0-alpha.25.2

I have a content type (Company) with a media content field (logo), the files are being uploaded correctly - but the API is not returning the association, just "null".

I've tried suggestions from #1783, but no luck. Happy to anyone else looking into this.

[Aurelsicoko]

@alexandrebodin I'm almost sure the work you're doing in the GraphQL plugin and relations will fix this issue... can you confirm?

[alexandrebodin]

@Aurelsicoko Need to be tested but I think so

[soonzhi]

i am facing this too. Not working in nested relation populations.
The morph relation is only able to be populated in single level fetch.
any updates?

[hieuxinhe94]

This issue still today 2021?

[pedrosantanna]

I'm having this issue too :( any updates?

[georgiod9]

How is there no universal solution to that? It's been 3 yrs and no one posted a proper fix yet?

I'm kind of in the same situation, my project is complete yet in production, the media uploads don't persist and the response from strapi api doesn't return relational media.

?populate=* is not the solution as it only populates content media and not media from a relation.

Anyone has a fix?

[Sparkah]

Another year and the same issue here.

[Sparkah]

okay, here is the solution:

Install deep populate plugin
yarn add strapi-plugin-populate-deep
or
npm add strapi-plugin-populate-deep

use /Authors?populate=deep instead of /Authors?populate=*