Why are my Mongoose 3.8.7 schema getters and setters being ignored?

Question

While working with Node.js, Mongoose and MongoDB, I have found that my Mongoose schema getters and setters do not fire when I perform a findOne query.

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Answer 1

Are you assuming virtuals are not working because they don't show up in your console.log output? If so, that is by design. Virtuals are external to your actual document so do not get printed with console.log by default. To get them to display, read these docs: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#document_Document-toObject