Mongoose/Mongodb: Exclude fields from populated query data

Question

I use the following mongoose query in a MEAN-environment to find and output a particular author and his corresponding books.

Author
.findOne({personcode: co         


        

Answer 1

Thanks JohnnyHK, and for object parameter this works:

Entity.populate({
    path: 'bookids',

    // some other properties
    match: {
        active: true
    },
    // some other properties

    select: '-_id -__v' // <-- this is the way
}).then(...) // etc