feat: implement as option for populate to assign results to an alternate path and add tests.
#15857
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Added support for an
asoption inpopulate(). This allows you to populate a path but assign the result to a different property, keeping the original path as-is. This is useful when you want to keep the foreign key (ObjectId) but also have the populated document available on the same object, without defining duplicate fields in the schema.Examples
This works with
lean(), arrays, and nested paths as well.