safe goblet
Hi there,
I'm using raw db queries to circumvent some poorly optimized payload-constructed queries in my project.
What I get back from those is a Mongoose Document, as expected, which I then need to transform into a POJO in order to use in my Client Components.
The problem is that calling the .lean() method in the query chain does not return a POJO directly.
From Mongoose's docs:
By default, Mongoose queries return an instance of the Mongoose Document class. Documents are much heavier than vanilla JavaScript objects, because they have a lot of internal state for change tracking. Enabling the lean option tells Mongoose to skip instantiating a full Mongoose document and just give you the POJO.
Example:
const organizations = await payload.db.collections
.organizations!.find({
type: {
$eq: "test",
},
})
.lean();
console.log(organizations)
// result
[
{
// These are not valid POJO values
_id: ObjectId('67b7f289af9a2c580ca7b37b'),
parent: ObjectId('67b7f1a0841fdc04c596c71b'),
createdAt: ISODate('2025-02-21T03:27:05.292Z'),
updatedAt: ISODate('2025-02-21T03:27:05.292Z'),
// ...
}
]
// expected
[
{
_id: '67b7f289af9a2c580ca7b37b',
parent: '67b7f1a0841fdc04c596c71b',
createdAt: '2025-02-21T03:27:05.292Z',
updatedAt: '2025-02-21T03:27:05.292Z',
// ...
}
]
I know I could use JSON stringify/parse, but it just adds additional overhead given that I get tens of thousands of entries back.
Am I missing something? Thanks for taking the time to help me.
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