Loop through Mongoose objects

Question

I have a Mongoose result object that I'd like to loop through, but it seems to behave differently than a classic object.

Usually, you can't loop through nonenumerable properties with for…in loop, but that seems to work here. Hence, that doesn't work with Object.keys though it's supposed to loop through the same properties as for…in…

Furthermore, Object.getOwnPropertyNames(obj) which is supposed to loop through every properties (enumerable or not) doesn't return any of the fetched values. I don't really get what's happening here.

Here is some sample code and its output to illustrate this:

MediaModel.findById('558d0b3a5fa02e7e218b470c', function (err, media) {
    if (err) {
        return console.error(err);
    }

    console.log(media);
    console.log("\n --- \n");
    console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(media));
    console.log("\n---\n");

    for (var prop in media) {
        console.log(prop + ' -- Enumerable : ' +   media.propertyIsEnumerable(prop) + ' -- hasOwnProperty : ' + media.hasOwnProperty(prop) + "\n");
    }
});

This it the output in the console:

{ _id: 558d0b3a5fa02e7e218b470c,
  name: '54ae5d587860b4.61272171',
  cover: true,
  size: 144,
  audio: 
   { es: '54ae5ec1e31c68.83020900',
     en: '54ae5ec240dd98.65329366',
     fr: '54ae5ec2950737.15028179',
     pt: '54ae5ec2e3bcf5.08479198',
     ar: '54ae5ec33ab8f5.67860635',
     ru: '54ae5ec393d300.66214842' },
  comments: [] }

 --- 

[ '$__',
  'isNew',
  'errors',
  '_doc',
  '$__original_save',
  'save',
  '_pres',
  '_posts' ]

---

$__ -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

isNew -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

errors -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

_doc -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

$__original_save -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

save -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

_pres -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

_posts -- Enumerable : true -- hasOwnProperty : true

db -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

discriminators -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

__v -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

id -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

_id -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

comments -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

size -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

length -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

cover -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

imdbId -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

imdbRating -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

year -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

actors -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

writers -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

director -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

genre -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

name -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

schema -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

collection -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__handleSave -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__delta -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__version -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

increment -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__where -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

remove -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

model -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

on -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

once -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

emit -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

listeners -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

removeListener -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

setMaxListeners -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

removeAllListeners -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

addListener -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__buildDoc -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

init -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__storeShard -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

hook -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

pre -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

post -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

removePre -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

_lazySetupHooks -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

update -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

set -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__shouldModify -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__set -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

getValue -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

setValue -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

get -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__path -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

markModified -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

modifiedPaths -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

isModified -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

isDirectModified -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

isInit -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

isSelected -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

validate -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

validateSync -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

invalidate -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$markValid -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$isValid -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__reset -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__dirty -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__setSchema -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__getArrayPathsToValidate -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__getAllSubdocs -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__registerHooksFromSchema -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__handleReject -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$toObject -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

toObject -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

toJSON -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

inspect -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

toString -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

equals -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

populate -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

execPopulate -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

populated -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

$__fullPath -- Enumerable : false -- hasOwnProperty : false

In the end, I'd like to loop through media.audio but I can't figure out how.

It works by doing var audio = (JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(media.audio))); and then loop through it with a for…in, but I don't find this to be the proper way of doing it!

That works perfectly! There's actually a [SO post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7503450/how-do-you-turn-a-mongoose-document-into-a-plain-object) that explains just that. — Buzut, Aug 08 '15 at 12:36
Nevertheless, how is that I get nonenumerable properties with `for…in`, as `media` is still a JS object? — Buzut, Aug 08 '15 at 12:38
Does this help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8024149/is-it-possible-to-get-the-non-enumerable-inherited-property-names-of-an-object#answer-8024294 ? — Artem Baranovskii, Aug 08 '15 at 15:59
There's also a quite good synthesis on [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Enumerability_and_ownership_of_properties) — Buzut, Aug 08 '15 at 17:23

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Well, question is not fresh, but this situation may still become a piece of pain. You may use toJSON or toObject method to get normal, iterable object. Just like this:

media = media.toJSON()
Object.keys(media.audio).forEach(...)

See this post for details about toJSON an toObject

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Feb 06 '16 at 18:01

Meredian

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '15 at 06:54

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I think you can do it with:

var media = {
    _id: '558d0b3a5fa02e7e218b470c',
    name: '54ae5d587860b4.61272171',
    cover: true,
    size: 144,
    audio: {
        es: '54ae5ec1e31c68.83020900',
        en: '54ae5ec240dd98.65329366',
        fr: '54ae5ec2950737.15028179',
        pt: '54ae5ec2e3bcf5.08479198',
        ar: '54ae5ec33ab8f5.67860635',
        ru: '54ae5ec393d300.66214842'
    },
    comments: []
};

for (var property in media.audio) {
    if (media.audio.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
        console.log(property);
    }
}

answered Aug 08 '15 at 06:54

michelem

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Here's the output: `$__ isNew errors _doc $__original_save save _pres _posts name toObject toJSON $__isNested lang __v id _id audio comments size length cover` – Buzut Aug 08 '15 at 09:25
I had tried `for…in` with either `media` and `media.audio` that doesn't change the output… And I still can't loop through the `media.audio` object. – Buzut Aug 08 '15 at 09:28

Loop through Mongoose objects

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