Hi all - I am struggling to find a solution for my API data. My design is that “Albums” have a one-to-many relationship with “songs”. In general, an Album can have many songs, but a song can be part of one Album only.
http://localhost:1337/api/albums?populate=* - gives me all Album data (incl. Album cover image etc) but song does not have data for song file, song image etc
http://localhost:1337/api/albums?populate[songs][populate]=* - gives me all the song data (like song file, cover image etc) but the Album does not show data like Album cover image etc
I am not able to display all the Album data and the Song data in one api. Can someone please help me?
Thanks
J
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After breaking my head, and pulling my hair, I was finally able to find a solution. I hate to say this, but making the API complex is such a foolish strategy. If the team is worried about performance, then they should allow for options and not completely disable it.
The solution.
- Install strapi-plugin-populate-deep - npm
- Build your admin
- Use /posts?populate=deep to get up to 5 levels deep of data. You can customize up to 10
Strapi, you have to strategize better, not get on the nerves of your users. A headless CMS should ideally simplify things, not complicate them.
Best of luck guys!
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This was really helpful, THANK YOU! 
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I am also stuck as like you. I’ve item table which brings it’s details from item_detail table and item_dimensions table. but item_detail table have relation with item_offers table and item_dimensions table relation with unit table. which are not fetching while populate the item table can you give idea about how to customise it?
Thank you mate for your help
Tried this but it did not help in my case where I have to populate a reference to a same collection type object. Got Your filters contain a field 'populate' that doesn't appear on your model definition nor its relations error every time I tried.