Nodejs aggregate lookup returns empty array

Question

I have user model

const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const uniqueValidator = require("mongoose-unique-validator");

const userSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  email: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
  password: { type: String, required: true },
  isEmailVerified: { type: Boolean },
  registrationStep: { type: Number, enum: [0,1,2,3]},
  regDate: { type: Date },
  companyName: { type: String },
  oib: { type: String },
  telephone: { type: String },
  address: { type: String },
  city: { type: String },
  countryCode: { type: String },
  postalCode: { type: String },
  userType: { type: String, enum:['firms','drivers','both']},
  approved: { type: Boolean },
  isAdmin: { type: Boolean }
});

userSchema.plugin(uniqueValidator);

module.exports = mongoose.model("User", userSchema);

and documents model

const mongoose = require("mongoose");

const docsSchema = mongoose.Schema({
  docsPath: { type: String, required: true },
  creator: { type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: "User", required: true },
  docType: { type: String, enum:['isr','lmp','pocmr'], required: true }
});

module.exports = mongoose.model("Docs", docsSchema);

I want to join collections so that for every user exists the user_docs field with docs data as in code below. I'm trying to do that with joining _id with creator as it is defined when creating a document

exports.getUsersAndDocs = (req, res, next) => {
  const query = User.aggregate([
    {
    $lookup: {
      from: "Docs",
      localField: "_id",
      foreignField: "creator",
      as: "user_docs"
    }
  }]);
  query
    .then(fetchedUsers => {
      res.status(200).json({
        message: "Users fetched successfully!",
        users: fetchedUsers,
      });
    })
    .catch(error => {
      res.status(500).json({
        message: "Fetching users failed!"
      });
    });
};

I'm recieveing empty user_docs array. Thank you for your help

Answer 1

If someone has the same problem. I solved it by changing

from: "Docs"

to

from: Docs.collection.name