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Hey man, awesome concept and could really help solve the natural headache of NoSQL solutions!

I'm trying to integrate this with my project, and the example collections are similar to the following:

var GearSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: { type: String }
});

var Gear = mongoose.model('Gear', GearSchema);

var BrandSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: { type: String }
});

var Brand = mongoose.model('Brand', BrandSchema);

...

Now assuming I have a couple brands in the brands collection like follows:

[{ name: 'Canon', _id: 1 }, { name: 'Nikon', _id: 2 }]

If I create a new Gear like so:

var gear = new Gear({ name: '5D Mark II', brand: { _id: 1 }});

gear.save();

...the gear will simply have brand populated with the _id as I passed it in, like this:

{ name: '5D Mark II', brand: { _id: 1 }}

If I then modify the associated brand/child item (like changing its name), the gear item finally gets populated correctly.

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

I'm not sure if any code updates are required to support 4.x but when I try to do an npm install in an application that has 4.x installed I get the following error:

npm ERR! node v0.12.4
npm ERR! npm  v2.10.1
npm ERR! code EPEERINVALID

npm ERR! peerinvalid The package mongoose does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements!
npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer [email protected] wants [email protected]

If lucky, updating the version in package.json may be all that is required.

May seem like a stupid question, but what's the syntax/method for filling multiple paths within a single model (from different sources)?

Thanks (again)!

Great plugin! Loving it. This not an issue, unless it's not possible, in which case it's a feature request. Had a quick question about updating embedded arrays...

Say you've got a standard User model, and the following:

var VoteSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  vote              : { type: Number }
});

var ItemSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  text              : { type: String, },
  votes             : [VoteSchema]
});

VoteSchema.plugin(filler, {
  ref  : 'User',
  dest : 'Claim',
  pos  : 'votes.$.',
  select : 'firstName lastName'
});

This works wonderfully (thanks again!), but it returns the user fields at the same level of 'vote'. So you get this...

votes = [
 { firstName: 'blah', lastName: 'blah', vote: 1 }
]

Is it possible to make it sync the user fields behind a 'user' key, like this:

votes = [
 { user: { firstName: 'blah', lastName: 'blah'}, vote: 1 }
]

Thanks for your help.