Populate Virtuals : not working 😞

Hi, I am using mongoose 4.5.3. As mentioned in the docs, http://mongoosejs.com/docs/populate.html in Populate Virtuals, I can’t produce desired results as mentioned.

There isn’t any members field present inside return bands doc. Are you sure this worked with you? Can you please add a travis-ci tests for this?

My code:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
mongoose.connect('mongodb://127.0.0.1/test');
var db = mongoose.connection;

/**************************************/

var personSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String,
  band: String
});

var bandSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: String
});


bandSchema.virtual('members', {
  ref: 'Person', // The model to use
  localField: 'name', // Find people where `localField`
  foreignField: 'band' // is equal to `foreignField`
});

var Person = mongoose.model('Person', personSchema);
var Band = mongoose.model('Band', bandSchema);

var person = new Person({
    name : 'Uday',
    band : 'gnr'
});
person.save(function(){
  var band = new Band({
      name : 'gnr'
  });

  band.save(function(){
    Band.find({}).populate('members').exec(function(error, bands) {
      console.log(bands);
    });
  });
});

Runnable

[thatisuday]

Ok. Got it. You must need to set toObject : {virtuals:true}, option in your schema. I guess, you should mention that in the doc. That would be helpful.

[thatisuday]

Got it, you also need to add option toJSON : {virtuals : true}.