required: true on objectId causes the validation to fail

I have a Schema that contains a Ref to another one. If I mark it as required, to validation fails. Without this attributes, everything go fine, including the ref.

Here is the actual Schema

answerChoiceSchema = new schema {
  propositionId: { type: objectId, required: true},
  dispo: { type: String, required: true, enum: ['yes', 'no']}
}

and an extract of my code

//c comes directly from a POST key/value array which just fine
choice = new Choice
choice.propositionId = c.propositionId
choice.dispo = c.dispo
answer.choices.push choice

I do not know if this is of any help to find the issue but “choice” data comes at 3rd level of nesting (parent->answers->choices)

What can I do about it ?

[sam13591980]

I have the same problem

[azat-co]

I think I found mistake in my code after writing short example. I was passing options to create method but it treated them as second set of argument and of course validation failed. Thank you!

In case somebody else need it, this doesn’t work:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

var PostModel = new Schema ({
    author: {
        _id: {
            type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
            ref: "User",
            required: true
        },
        name: String
    },
    text: String
});

var UserModel = new Schema ({
    name: String
});

var dbUrl = process.env.MONGOHQ_URL || "mongodb://@127.0.0.1:27017/test";

var connection = mongoose.createConnection(dbUrl);
var User = connection.model('User', UserModel, "users");
var Post =  connection.model('Post', PostModel, "posts");
var user;
User.create({
    name: "John"
}, function (err, obj){
    if (err) {
        console.log(err)
    } else {
        console.log(obj);
        user = obj;
        Post.create({
            author:{
                _id: user._id
            },
            text: "Blah blah blah blah blah"
        },{safe:true}, function (err, obj){
            if (err) {
                console.log(err) 
            } else {
                console.log(obj);
            }
        });
        // var post = new Post();
        // post.
    }
})

But this works

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;

var PostModel = new Schema ({
    author: {
        _id: {
            type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
            ref: "User",
            required: true
        },
        name: String
    },
    text: String
});

var UserModel = new Schema ({
    name: String
});

var dbUrl = process.env.MONGOHQ_URL || "mongodb://@127.0.0.1:27017/test";

var connection = mongoose.createConnection(dbUrl);
var User = connection.model('User', UserModel, "users");
var Post =  connection.model('Post', PostModel, "posts");
var user;
User.create({
    name: "John"
}, function (err, obj){
    if (err) {
        console.log(err)
    } else {
        console.log(obj);
        user = obj;
        Post.create({
            author:{
                _id: user._id
            },
            text: "Blah blah blah blah blah"
        }, function (err, obj){
            if (err) {
                console.log(err) 
            } else {
                console.log(obj);
            }
        });
    }
})