Reference document doesn't populate data

var color = ottoman.model('Color', {
  value : {
    type : "string"
  }
})

var Furniture = ottoman.model('Fur', { 
   type: { type: 'string' },
   color : { ref : 'Color' }
 }
)

var c = new color({ value : "777777" });

c.save(function(err, doc){
  if(!err) {

    var test = new Furniture({
      type : 'couch',
      color : c
    })

    test.save(function(err, doc){
      console.log(test);
    })
  }
})

Furniture.find({}, function(err, doc){
  console.log('doc', doc[0].color);
})

the first logging show the color console.log(test); as // { value : 77777 }

OttomanModel(`Fur`, loaded, key:Fur|6ace0a3e-9465-4c26-a699-6ba6a7b1a995, {
  _id: '6ace0a3e-9465-4c26-a699-6ba6a7b1a995',
  type: 'couch',
  color: OttomanModel(`Color`, loaded, key:Color|64f8ac67-a334-4cf6-aa59-67c16a2cf3e2, {
    _id: '64f8ac67-a334-4cf6-aa59-67c16a2cf3e2',
    value: '777777',
  }),
})

the second logging console.log('doc', doc[0].color); show the color object but no data show up

    _id: '2ccf7aee-9f3e-45d0-b6da-fa003ab405ab',
    type: 'couch',
    color: OttomanModel(`Color`, unloaded, key:Color|0d4b1f7b-e4d9-4ee2-bc31-67c208d23b89, {}),

I notice the first call the color model is loaded, but i don’t understand why it is not loaded when using find.

[brett19]

Just to add to @moxious’s answer. You can actually implicit load more of the submodels through various tools. You can pass the ‘load’ option to .find to specify specific paths to load (ie: .find({}, {load: ['color']}). You can also pass the ‘depth’ option to load all models up to a certain depth.

P.S. @moxious, recursive loading is supported. A->B->A will make B’s reference to A point to the actual model instance it already loaded as part of that .load call.

Cheers, Brett

[richard-dev-mx]

Yes, I was thinking that with the load option, ottoman load the definitions of the models from some place, but i reviewed the code and I see my mistake.