How to deeply populate (sub)components inside dynamic zone

[mjtch-rll]

Hey Bart, if you’re still looking for a solution check-out this thread.

Looks like it worked for many people by editing strapi’s controller

Strapi V4 populate Media and Dynamiczones from Components

As we already know we can populate by field like “/articles?populate=tags,author”. But, if we have a media filed in author table (lets say an ‘avatar’ image) , it will not be returned in response. To fix this, we can just access it like this, “/articles?populate=tags,author.avatar” where avatar is the media field we want to populate in our nested author object. I do it for selective populate use cases. Been bummed about it for couple of days and found out this works by trial and error (smashes…