I am trying to create a basic social media website, with post having different comments, likes, comments also having likes. If the logged in user is the one that made the comment or post, he could be able to delete the post.
So I have to use the deep populate method of mongoose, but the issue I am having is, when the content of the comment is showing, then the name of the user that made that comment is missing.
Post Schema is as follows
content: {
type: String,
required: true
},
user: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'User'
},
// include the array of ids of all comments in this post schema itself
comments: [
{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'Comment'
}
],
likes: [
{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'Like'
}
]
},{
timestamps: true
});
Like Schema is as follows -
const likeSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
user: {
type: mongoose.Schema.ObjectId
},
// this defines the object id of the liked object
likeable: {
type: mongoose.Schema.ObjectId,
require: true,
refPath: 'onModel'
},
// this field is used for defining the type of the liked object since this is a dynamic reference
onModel: {
type: String,
required: true,
enum: ['Post', 'Comment']
}
}, {
timestamps: true
});
User Schema is as follows -
const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
email: {
type: String,
required: true,
unique: true
},
password: {
type: String,
required: true
},
name: {
type: String,
required: true
},
avatar: {
type: String
}
}, {
timestamps: true
});
Comment Schema is as follows -
const commentSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
content: {
type: String,
required: true
},
// comment belongs to a user
user: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'User'
},
post: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'Post'
},
likes: [
{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'Like'
}
]
},{
timestamps: true
});
And this is the populate function, on the front end I am trying to display all possible posts with all possible likes and comments, with all the comments also having likes. And obviously the name of the user that made the comment -
let posts = await Post.find({})
.sort('-createdAt')
.populate('user')
.populate({
path: 'comments',
populate: {
path: 'user'
},
populate: {
path: 'likes'
}
}).populate('comments')
.populate('likes');
But in the front end, I am not able to display the User Name that made a particular comment.
Please tell the error.
