Error: Invalid nested populate for

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I have created a dynamic zone “products” on a collection type named “coffret”.
When I try to populate all these dynamic products from REST API, I get this error:

error: Invalid nested populate for coffret.products (api::coffret.coffret). Expected a fragment ("on") or "count" but found {"populate":"*"}
Error: Invalid nested populate for coffret.products (api::coffret.coffret). Expected a fragment ("on") or "count" but found {"populate":"*"}

Here is the query I try to send:

localhost:1337/api/coffrets?populate[products][populate]=*

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Error: Invalid nested populate for dynamic zone

3

Sorry to jump in, having the same problem, I’m using the latest rc version cuz of issue #20638, but i assume the post creator is using the stable version

4

just noticed that 4.25.4 was released that fixes the windows path issue, downgraded and the nested populate works like a charm, so this is a 5.x-rc issue

5

facing same issue while testing application using rc-7. anyone know when this fix release for v5 ?

6

same issue here

7

Hi :wave:

so when you populate a dynamic it contains a lot of different components. In v4 using * could actually completly break your request.

We are looking into what we can do to still offer this convenient method but without the issue it was causing.

For now you will have to specify a populate for the component types you want to populate

e.g

{
  populate: {
    dz: {
      on: {
        compoA: {
          populate: *
        }
        compoB: {
          populate: ['some-filed']
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
8

Also FYI I checked in with the team and they added support for

populate[dz]=true directly that should do what you need :+1: