Description: I’m working with Strapi v5 and trying to query a Dynamic Zone (body) that includes multiple components, each with nested fields. My goal is to avoid using populate: “*” to prevent fetching unnecessary data, so I’m attempting to populate only specific fields within each component. However, specifying individual components in the populate query consistently results in a 500 Internal Server Error.
Here’s the structure of the body Dynamic Zone:
body-text: Includes nested text fields.
youtube-link: Contains a youtubeLink field.
copyright-image: Includes fields for Author, copyright, and nested image data.
carrousel-image: Contains an array of image metadata.
When I use populate: “*” on body, the query works, but it returns excess data. However, when trying to specify each component separately within the populate object, like this:
populate: {
body: {
populate: {
‘body-text’: { fields: [‘text’] },
‘youtube-link’: { fields: [‘youtubeLink’] },
‘copyright-image’: { fields: [‘Author’, ‘copyright’] },
‘carrousel-image’: { fields: [‘carrousel’] }
}
}
}
… the query fails with a 500 error.
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