Populate nested components

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System Information
  • 4.0.0:
  • Ubuntu 20.04.3:
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  • v14.18.2:
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I need to populate all the nested components.
I tried /api/resturant?populate=* but it only populate first level
I also tried /api/resturant?populate[service.client][populate]?=* but it does not populate all components

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At my knowledge using the following method populate=firstLevelComponent.firstComponentChild is the only way to get the nested components in strapi v4

3

This does work for nested component but i am with dynamic zone and i want to populate all the nested component in the dynamic zone with images

4

According to the documents it should work for the dynamics too. Can you share some infos about the endpoints you trying to access?

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This is a single type i created

strapi-content-type
strapi-content-type1153×671 74.9 KB

I have dynamic zone block and inside block i have two component comp1 and comp2. In comp1 there are reptable component techComp which have image and title
This is the response i get when i hit /api/page?populate=*
populate-all
populate-all1147×666 72.9 KB

The compoents inside comp1 do not get populated.
This is the response when i hit /api/page?populate[block][populate]=*
populate-block
populate-block1093×667 74.6 KB

All the components get populate but not the images inside the nested components.
I just want to populate all the components, nested components, all images.
Is there any way

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Try to follow in your search this syntax: /api/page?populate=block.comp1.techComp.techImage maybe you need to change some characters cause my naming could be wrong.

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7

Thanks bro. You made my day. :blush:

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8

i found a solution by using this plugin: strapi-plugin-populate-deep - npm
it works like a charm.
using strapi version: 4.1.5
Hope it works for you all. Greetings

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You can use this amazing module @encoreskytech/strapi-plugin-nested-populator

It’s very easy to use.
It will work with strapi version 5 and the version 4 as well.

Enjoy the coding!