Collection.findOne(mongoQuery).populate('schema') error

[aurickislam]

In my collection there is a property called schema.

const schema = new mongoose.Schema({
	name: {type: String, required: true},
	schema: { type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, required: true, ref: 'Schema'},
	features: {type: Object, required: true}
}, {versionKey: false});

My code is following

const mongoQuery = {
	_id: new mongoose.Types.ObjectId(configurationId)
};

const config = await Configuration.findOne(mongoQuery).populate('schema');

While I was trying to populate the schema property it was giving the following error.

/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/helpers/populate/getSchemaTypes.js:27
  const pathschema = schema.path(path);
                            ^

TypeError: schema.path is not a function
    at getSchemaTypes (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/helpers/populate/getSchemaTypes.js:27:29)
    at getModelsMapForPopulate (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/helpers/populate/getModelsMapForPopulate.js:57:14)
    at populate (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:4435:21)
    at _populate (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:4406:5)
    at /home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:4383:5
    at promiseOrCallback (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/helpers/promiseOrCallback.js:10:12)
    at Mongoose._promiseOrCallback (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/index.js:1151:10)
    at Function.Model.populate (/home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/model.js:4381:23)
    at /home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/query.js:2320:11
    at /home/mypc/nodejsprojects/my_app/node_modules/mongoose/lib/query.js:3108:21
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:77:11)

If I replace the property name from schema to configSchema or schemas or anything but schema the problem resolves.
It was working fine with the property name schema till mongoose@5.13.8. I have recently update my project with mongoose@6.0.1. And facing the issue.

[lorand-horvath]

Perhaps this breaking change is causing it: https://mongoosejs.com/docs/migrating_to_6.html#strictpopulate