Mongo newbie here 👋🏻 Is it possible to do findOne after the populate?
The query string I have available belongs to the referenced document. I would like to first populate it and then find the document I am looking for.
Other wise I first need to do a findOne in one collection and pass the result to another collection’s findOne.
I am trying to avoid an unnecessary findOne operation but maybe I am overthinking it and its okay to do multiple findOne’s to reach a result?
Another solution comes to my mind is to make the query string I have available an indexed unique field so I can directly do findOne.
Great point you made there. I never tried that, but I guess you can give it try. For cases like these, I tend to use aggregation.
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Mongo newbie here 👋🏻
Is it possible to do findOne after the populate?
The query string I have available belongs to the referenced document. I would like to first populate it and then find the document I am looking for.
Other wise I first need to do a findOne in one collection and pass the result to another collection’s findOne.
I am trying to avoid an unnecessary findOne operation but maybe I am overthinking it and its okay to do multiple findOne’s to reach a result?
Another solution comes to my mind is to make the query string I have available an indexed unique field so I can directly do findOne.
Great point you made there. I never tried that, but I guess you can give it try. For cases like these, I tend to use aggregation.