Mongoose find by reference field

Question

I have a channel schema like this:

const channelSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    name: {
      type: String,
      unique: true
    }
  }
);

And this is the feedback schema:

const feedbackSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  channelId: {
    type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
    ref: "channel",
    require: true
  }
});

How can I find the feedback by channel name?

Feedback.find({channelId.name : 'something'})

Thanks

Answer 1

You cant query for a property on an object that doest exists, I would suggest first querying for the channel, grabbing the id and doing the lookup from there.

const channel = await Channel.findOne({ name });
const feedback = await Feedback.find({ channelId: channel._id })