Question

Is there a way to save a model and populate the Dbref-like field within the saved model.

I’m currently doing

dbrefobj.findbyid(id).run(
    function (err, dbrefobj) {
        topobj.save....

I would like to do something like

topobj.save.populate(dbrefobj)

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can define 'save' middleware in your schema to insert your own processing into the act of saving a document. In your case you’d look up the referenced document and pull in whatever you need from that into the document being saved. See the Mongoose middleware docs here.