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Accessing the underlying Mongoose object

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devperson2 years ago
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There doesn't seem to be a way to do this -- will this ever be possible?



Would be useful to get the database connection to do more complex aggregations for instance

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    jmikrut
    2 years ago

    You can do it!



    payload.collections[collectionSlug].Model
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    devperson2 years ago

    oh nice, thanks!

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