FeathersJs $populate broke?

[alexjs-dev]

Hello,

I have a custom populate before hook for some of my services

const populate = (context) => {
    const stringList = ['userId'];
    context.params.query['$populate'] = {
      path: `${stringList.join(' ')}`,
}
return context;
}

It used to work perfectly fine, resolving my userId like

{
 topic: "Text topic",
 userId: {
 _id: ....
 username: "Bob"
 }
}

part of the service's Mongoose schema

  const schema = new Schema(
    {
      userId: {
        type: mongooseClient.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
        ref: 'users',
        required: true,
      },
      topic: { type: String, required: true },

After I added mongoose-fuzzy-searching everything was working fine, but I updated my packages.json (also removed mongoose-fuzzy-searching) now all my populate fields resolve in something like

 "topic": "test topic",
 "userId": {
        "_bsontype": "ObjectID",
        "id": {
          "type": "Buffer",
          "data": [
            96,
            178,
            25,
            104,
            188,
            83,
            12,
            220,
            42,
            142,
            198,
            38
          ]
        },
    }
      

My package.json

{
  "name": "backend-app",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "homepage": "",
  "private": true,
  "main": "src",
  "keywords": [
    "feathers"
  ],
  "author": {
    "name": "Alex",
  },
  "contributors": [],
  "bugs": {},
  "directories": {
    "lib": "src",
    "test": "test/",
    "config": "config/"
  },
  "engines": {
    "node": "^10.13.0",
    "yarn": ">= 0.18.0"
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      "es2015",
      "stage-0"
    ]
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "yarn run lint && yarn run jest",
    "lint": "eslint src/. test/. --config .eslintrc.json",
    "dev": "nodemon src/",
    "seed": "node src/seeds.js",
    "build": "",
    "start": "node src/",
    "jest": "jest  --forceExit"
  },
  "standard": {
    "env": [
      "jest"
    ],
    "ignore": []
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@feathersjs/authentication": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/authentication-local": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/authentication-oauth": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/configuration": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/errors": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/express": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/feathers": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/socketio": "^4.5.11",
    "@feathersjs/transport-commons": "^4.5.11",
    "babel-node": "^0.0.1-security",
    "cloudinary": "^1.22.0",
    "compression": "^1.7.4",
    "cors": "^2.8.5",
    "feathers-hooks-common": "^5.0.5",
    "feathers-mongoose": "^8.3.1",
    "feathers-swagger": "^1.2.1",
    "helmet": "^3.21.2",
    "jwt-decode": "^3.0.0-beta.2",
    "lodash": "^4.17.15",
    "moment": "^2.27.0",
    "mongodb-core": "^3.2.7",
    "mongoose": "^5.8.13",
    "mongoose-to-swagger": "^1.0.3",
    "multer": "^1.4.2",
    "multer-storage-cloudinary": "^4.0.0",
    "serve-favicon": "^2.5.0",
    "stripe": "^8.69.0",
    "winston": "^3.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.19.2",
    "babel-cli": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "^6.24.1",
    "eslint": "^6.8.0",
    "faker": "^5.1.0",
    "jest": "^25.0.1",
    "nodemon": "^2.0.2"
  }
}

Any idea what could break it? I'm guessing some package got updated and it broke everything down.. Because I used faker to see data, now it's spamming me with deprecated functions warnings.

[J3m5]

You now need to whitelist the $populate operator in the service options.

[alexjs-dev]

How is that done? Where? @J3m5

[bwgjoseph]

Take a look at service-options-whitelist