Autopopulate - Select options argument(return all fields), issue with latest version of mongoose > 4.11.0 about mongoose-autopopulate

[vkarpov15]

Thanks for reporting, will investigate ASAP 👍

[vkarpov15]

Upon closer inspection this looks like expected behavior because you have an autopopulate on personSchema.areaId. In 4.11.14 we made a bug fix that automatically selects paths that you call populate() on, so in this case your schema is configured to populate() on areaId whenever you load a Person. Notice that, for example, nickName doesn't show up in the output.

As a workaround, you can use the maxDepth option to make sure the bandSchema autopopulates don't trigger any person autopopulate:

            let bandSchema = new Schema({
                "name": String,
                "personId": {"type":ObjectId, "ref":CONFIG.PERSON_SCHEMA, "autopopulate":{"select" : "name", maxDepth: 1} }, // <-- note the `maxDepth: 1` here
                "areaId": {"type":ObjectId, "ref":CONFIG.AREA_SCHEMA }
            });