mongoose Mongoose Population Populate only a few fields
Example
If you only want the fields houseNum and street in the address field in the final populated doc, use the populate() function as follows in the above two methods,
Person.findOne({_id: req.params.id})
.populate('address', 'houseNum street')
.exec(function(err, person) {
// do something.
// variable `person` contains the final populated data
});
Or
Person.findOne({_id: req.params.id}, function(err, person) {
// do something
// variable `person` contains the final populated data
})
.populate('address', 'houseNum street');
This will produce the following final populated doc,
Populated Doc
{
"_id":"123abc",
"fname":"John",
"mname":"Kennedy",
"lname":"Doe",
"address":{
"_id":"456def",
"houseNum":"2",
"street":"Street 2"
}
}
