populate with mongoose pagination

Question

i tried to fetch data using npm mongoose-paginate but populate is not working

here is my UsersSchema.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var usersSchema = new Schema({
    name : String,
    created_at : { type : Date, default : Date.now }
});

module.exports = mongoose.model('users',usersSchema);

here is post schema

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var mongoosePaginate = require('mongoose-paginate');

var postsSchema = new Schema({
    user : { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'users' },
    post : String,
    created_at : { type : Date, default : Date.now }
});
postsSchema.plugin(mongoosePaginate);
module.exports = mongoose.model('posts',postsSchema);

here is my query

var options = {
    sort:     { created_at: -1 },
    lean:     true,
    offset:   offset,
    populate : 'users',
    limit:    10
};
postsSchema.paginate({user:user},options,function(err,posts){
    if(err){
        console.log(err)
        return false;
    }
    console.log(posts)
});

user provide objectID not a users data. i.e

[{
   user : objectID(987654ff11aa),
   post : 'post'
}]

score 27 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 19 '18 at 19:24

27

If you want to use mongoose-paginate, You can do the following

var query = {};
var options = {
  sort: { date: -1 },
  populate: 'users',
  lean: true,
  offset: offset, 
  limit: 10
};

Post.paginate({}, options, (err, result) => {
 //....
})

answered Sep 19 '18 at 19:24

Olu Udeh

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please what if I want to go a step further and query by the user name e.g users with name `(user.name)` that has the works `eye` inside – Eshiett Oto-obong Oct 20 '20 at 08:01
Look at the answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43729199/how-i-can-use-like-operator-on-mongoose – Olu Udeh Oct 20 '20 at 13:01

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '18 at 13:17

A populate have following things

Post.find({})
.populate([
    // here array is for our memory. 
    // because may need to populate multiple things
    {
        path: 'user',
        select: 'name',
        model:'User',
        options: {
            sort:{ },
            skip: 5,
            limit : 10
        },
        match:{
            // filter result in case of multiple result in populate
            // may not useful in this case
        }
    }
])
.exec((err, results)=>{
   console.log(err, results)
})

populate with mongoose pagination

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