Nested-child DBRef Populating

[niftylettuce]

Could we support recursive nested-child DBRef population? For example:

schemas/dogs.js

module.exports = function(db) {
  var Dogs = new db.Schema({
    name: String,
    _breed: {
      type: db.Schema.ObjectId,
      ref: 'Breeds'
    }
  });
  return db.model('Dogs', Dogs);
};

schemas/breeds.js

module.exports = function(db) {
  var Breeds = new db.Schema({
    name: String,
    _fur: {
      type: db.Schema.ObjectId,
      ref: 'Furs'
    }
  });
  return db.model('Breeds', Breeds);
}

schemas/furs.js

module.exports = function(db) {
  var Furs = new db.Schema({
    color: String
  });
  return db.model('Furs', Furs);
}

routes/dogs.js

var Dogs = db.model('Dogs');
Dogs
  .find()
  .populate('_breed._fur')
  .run(function(err, dog) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log(dog);
    res.json(dog);
  });

This would in turn pull all the Dogs, then populate their _breed's, and populate each _breed's _fur's.

Also, what is the general view about pluralize vs. singular? Should we have singular db schema names etc.?
-- I thought there was a pluralize function that automatically did this or something (if I can remember correctly)?

[aheckmann]

closing this. tracking it in #601