nodejs-mongoose-deep-populate

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34786589/mongoose-deep-populate-limiting-intermediate-model/35241056

Schema looks like this:

var userSchema = new Schema({
  name:  String,
  email: String
});

var CommentSchema = new Schema({
  author  : {type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User'},
  title: String,
  body: String
})

var PostSchema = new Schema({
  title:  String,
  author: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
  comments: [{type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Comment'}],
  body:   String
});

PostSchema.plugin(deepPopulate, {
  populate: {
    'author': { select: 'name' },
    'comments': { select: 'title author' },
    'comments.author': { select: 'name' },
  }
});

The deepPopulate settings above limit fields for related author, comments and comments.author. To get posts and limit fields for the post itself, I use this:

Post.find().select('title author comments').deepPopulate('author comments.author').exec(function(err, data) {
    // process the data
});

The data looks like this:

[{
    "_id": "56b74c9c60b11e201fc8563f",
    "author": {
        "_id": "56b74c9b60b11e201fc8563d",
        "name": "Tester"
    },
    "title": "test",
    "comments": [
        {
            "_id": "56b74c9c60b11e201fc85640",
            "title": "comment1",
            "author": {
                "_id": "56b74c9b60b11e201fc8563e",
                "name": "Poster"
            }
        }
    ]
}]

So for the post itself we only have title (body is not selected). For populated records the selected fields are limited as well.