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Using Mongoose, how do I access a subdocument in an array? In the schema I have declared my subdocument using an object-literal as per the docs.

After I have retrieved the parent document I can log out doc.children and see the array of objects, but when I attempt to access any of the documents I get undefined. doc.children is not returned as an array, so how do I access the subdocuments?

Schema:

var parentSchema = new Schema({
  children: [{ name: 'string' }]
});

Usage:

console.log(doc.children);  //[{name: 'hello'}, {name: 'world'}]
doc.children[0];            //undefined
doc.children['0'];          //undefined
Josh Cole
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The code above looks almost exactly like the documentation here: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/subdocs.html

I am thinking perhaps there is something else in your code acting strange that you've not displayed here. Perhaps try using get: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/api.html#document_Document-get

doc.get('children')
Will Shaver
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