Sails workaround for deep populate

Question

I\'m trying to deep populate a collection.

For example

// UnitType.js
name: { type: \'string\' }

// Unit.js
unitType: {
  model: \'unitType\',
  via         


        

Answer 1

You could try to replace Waterline ORM with Offshore ORM. There is a hook for sails to do that - sails-hook-orm-offshore.

It's quite easy to implement to your existing project, because its fork of Waterline wits some more features. Only cons i found is that sails-hook-validation stopped working.

How to install

npm install sails-hook-orm-offshore --save

Configuration

.sailsrc

{
    "hooks": {
        "orm": false,
        "pubsub": false
    }
}

Defaults

config/globals.js

adapters: true,
models: true

Usage

Now you will be allowed to deep populate in your queries. For example (from documentation):

User.find()
.populate('foo.bar', { name: 'foo' }) //populate foo into user and bar into foo
.exec(function(err, users) {
    console.log(users[0].foo.bar.name) // 'foo'
});

Second option

Merge deep populate with waterline

npm i Atlantis-Software/waterline#deepPopulate