Key Within Populated Data

Is there a way to leave the ID in the populated object as opposed to it being replaced by the data?

This is the data:

goals: {
  text: 'Something'
  user: 'userId'
}
users: {
  userId: { online: true }
}

This is the outcome of populate:

goals: {
  text: 'Something',
  user: { online: true }
}

Is there a way to make the outcome as follows:

goals: {
  text: 'Something',
  user: { user: 'userId', online: true }
}

or

goals: {
  text: 'Something',
  user: 'userId',
  userData: { online: true }
}

The first option would be to include the key used in the populated object. The second option would be to specify the target child for populate values.

[DeividasK]

Thanks for the custom populatedDataToJS version. I’ll try that tomorrow.

In the future I think the option that you suggested would be the best way forward. I think in most cases retaining the key is not necessary, so doing this by default may bring more problems than it would solve. Simply adding keyProp like you suggested would be more than enough in cases where one wants to retain the key.

Since having a custom query solves my problem, not sure if this issue should be closed or left for the discussions regarding the future implementation.

Thanks for all the great work!

[prescottprue]

This has been confirmed and is available in all v1.3.0-* pre-releases. Will be included in v1.3.0 and future versions.