From 9402efdd677e1e920fcf9c5241bcefbcb98da800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valeri Karpov <val@karpov.io>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 12:27:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(populate): handles refPath underneath map of subdocuments

Fix #9359
---
 lib/helpers/populate/modelNamesFromRefPath.js | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/helpers/populate/modelNamesFromRefPath.js b/lib/helpers/populate/modelNamesFromRefPath.js
index c441f565e01..89269987492 100644
--- a/lib/helpers/populate/modelNamesFromRefPath.js
+++ b/lib/helpers/populate/modelNamesFromRefPath.js
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 const MongooseError = require('../../error/mongooseError');
 const isPathExcluded = require('../projection/isPathExcluded');
+const lookupLocalFields = require('./lookupLocalFields');
+const mpath = require('mpath');
 const util = require('util');
 const utils = require('../../utils');
 
@@ -44,13 +46,13 @@ module.exports = function modelNamesFromRefPath(refPath, doc, populatedPath, mod
       }
     }
 
-    const refValue = utils.getValue(_refPath, doc);
+    const refValue = mpath.get(_refPath, doc, lookupLocalFields);
     let modelNames = Array.isArray(refValue) ? refValue : [refValue];
     modelNames = utils.array.flatten(modelNames);
     return modelNames;
   }
 
-  const refValue = utils.getValue(refPath, doc);
+  const refValue = mpath.get(refPath, doc, lookupLocalFields);
 
   let modelNames;
   if (modelSchema != null && modelSchema.virtuals.hasOwnProperty(refPath)) {