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How to fill multiple models with mongodb using "population"

I am trying to display all the data with the "populate" statement. But I only get one "populate" but when I put many it doesn't work.
what I want to do is to bring me the data from the "User", "Customer" model as well.
This is my code
My Model:
import { model, Schema } from 'mongoose';
const RoomSchema = new Schema({
Users: [
{
agentId: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "User",
required: false,
},
customerId: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "Customer",
required: false,
},
typeId: Number, // 1 - agent, 2 - client
},
],
Messages: [
{
agentId: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "User",
required: false,
},
customerId: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "Customer",
required: false,
},
message: {
type: String,
required: true,
},
date: Date,
sender: Number,
},
],
FinishAt: Date,
FinishBy: String,
typeFinishBy: Number, // 1 - agent, 2 - client
}, {
timestamps: true,
versionKey: false
});
export default model('Room', RoomSchema);
this is the sentence I am using
import Room from "../models/Room.js";
async function getOnlyRoom(id) {
const foundRoom = await Room.findById(id)
.populate('Users.agentId')
.populate('Users.customerId')
.populate('Messages.agentId')
.populate('Messages.customerId')
.execPopulate();
return foundRoom
}
Image of Json Postman
only works with one
foundRoom.populate('Users.customerId')
Works with only populate
this is the error
image of error
Thank you very much for your help

I have found the solution to my problem
I was researching the solution on the mongoose website and did it with a single populate.
const populateRoom = await foundRoom
.populate([
{ path: 'Users.agentId', select: 'name' },
{ path: 'Users.customerId', select: 'name' },
{ path: 'Messages.agentId', select: 'name' },
{ path: 'Messages.customerId', select: 'name' }
])
return populateRoom;

How to populate all the user fields which is inside an object inside of an array and another array in mongoose

here is my course schema
const CourseSchema = new Schema(
{
courseName: {
type: String,
required: true,
lowercase: true,
},
comments: [
[
{
user: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "Users",
required: true,
},
comment: {
type: String,
required: true,
},
createdAt: {
type: Date,
required: true,
},
},
],
],
},
{
timestamps: true,
}
);
const Course = mongoose.model("Course", CourseSchema);
I want to populate the user field. I've tried many stack overflow solutions but none of them works for me.
I populated the model like this but, doing so it only populates the first index the of every model.
courses = await Course.findOne({}).populate({
path: "comments.0.0.user",
});

You can populate another level deeper, here's what you need to do:
db.Course.findOne({}).populate({"path":"comments",populate:[{
path:"user",
model:"Users"
}]})
Another way of nested populating data:
db.Course.findOne({}).populate("comments.user")

How to verify if email exists in two seperate documents of mongoose?

I have two models, patients and doctors. When the user signs in, be it the doctor or patient, there is only one route which runs the login function of the backend. But what I fail to understand is how to query such that it searches in both collections of patients and doctors by using single query.
This is the doctor model:
const doctorSchema = new Schema({
firstName: {
type: String,
required: true
},
lastName: {
type: String,
required: true
},
email: {
type: String,
required: true
},
password: {
type: String,
required: true
},
date: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now
},
practitionerLicense: {
type: String,
required: true
}
});
module.exports = Doctor = mongoose.model("doctors", doctorSchema);
And the patient model:
const patientSchema = new Schema({
firstName: {
type: String,
required: true
},
lastName: {
type: String,
required: true
},
email: {
type: String,
required: true
},
password: {
type: String,
required: true
},
date: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now
}
});
module.exports = Patient = mongoose.model("patient", patientSchema);
Now I want something like the following pseudo code where users could be like a base class or something.
Users.findOne({email}).then(...)
I went through many other similar questions but saw methods like populate which I believe would not suit my case. Any suggestions?

Your patient and doctor schemas are almost same except the practitionerLicense field.
So instead of two different schemas, I would create a common user schema with an additional role field like this:
const userSchema = new Schema({
firstName: {
type: String,
required: true
},
lastName: {
type: String,
required: true
},
email: {
type: String,
required: true
},
password: {
type: String,
required: true
},
date: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now
},
practitionerLicense: {
type: String,
required: false
},
role: {
type: String,
enum: ["patient", "doctor"],
required: true
}
});
module.exports = User = mongoose.model("users", userSchema);
Note that I also set practitionerLicense's required option to false.
This way you can use a common user login form and route.
Your register route and register form in React can also be common, if you could verify if a user enters a practitioner license, and you can validate it using an API if there is such an API.
If that is not possible, your register routes and register components must be different for patient and doctor. When a user registers in patient register form, you can set role to patient. And when a user registers in doctor register form, you can set role to doctor.

Handlebars each statement can access data that handlebars won't access directly

I have a simple help desk app I've been building, where user can make request for site changes. One of the features is being able to see all request made by a specific person, which is working. However on that page I wanted to have something akin to "User's Request" where user is the person's page you are on. However I can't seem to get it to work without some weird issues. If I use:
{{#each request}}
{{user.firstName}}'s Request
{{/each}}
It works but I end up with the header being written as many times as the user has request. However, when I tried:
{{request.user.firstName}}
It returns nothing.
My route is populating user data, so I think I should be able to reference it directly. Here's the route:
// list Request by User
router.get('/user/:userId', (req, res) => {
Request.find({user: req.params.userId})
.populate('user')
.populate('request')
.then(request => {
res.render('request/user', {
request: request,
});
});
});
Here's the schema:
const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;
// Create Schema
const RequestSchema = new Schema({
title: {
type: String,
required: true,
},
body: {
type: String,
required: true,
},
status: {
type: String,
default: 'new',
},
priority: {
type: String,
default: 'low',
},
project: {
type: String,
default: 'miscellaneous',
},
category: {
type: String,
default: 'change',
category: ['change', 'bug', 'enhancement', 'investigation', 'minor_task', 'major_task', 'question'],
},
organization: {
type: String,
default: 'any',
},
assignedUser: {
type: String,
default: 'venkat',
},
allowComments: {
type: Boolean,
default: true,
},
user: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'users',
},
lastUser: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'users',
},
date: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now,
},
lastUpdate: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now,
},
comments: [{
commentBody: {
type: String,
required: true,
},
commentDate: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now,
},
commentUser: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'users',
},
}],
});
// Create collection and add Schema
mongoose.model('request', RequestSchema);
The rest of the code is at: https://github.com/Abourass/avm_req_desk

If anyone is wondering how, the answer was to add the array identifier to the dot path notation:
<h4>{{request.0.user.firstName}}'s Request</h4>

Updating nested array's field

I have a schema
const RoomSchema = mongoose.Schema({
title: {
type: String,
required: true
},
body: {
type: String,
required: true
},
author: {
type: String,
required: true
},
resource: {
type: String
},
posts: {
type: Array,
default: []
},
url: {
type: String
},
created_at: {
type: String,
required: true
}});
Field 'posts' is another document in my db, defined by the following schema:
const PostSchema = mongoose.Schema({
header: {
type: String,
required: true
},
body: {
type: String,
required: true
},
author: {
username: {type:String, required: true},
_id: {type:String, required:true}
},
room: {
type: String,
required: true
}});
So, I'm trying to create a query that would update fields of certain post inside posts array inside room. I've already tried suggested here, thought without results. I would appreciate any help on the subject
Room.update({ '_id': roomId, 'posts._id': postId },
{ $set: { 'posts.$.header': newHeader, 'posts.$.body': newBody } },
callback);