Non-destructive mongoose.Document.prototype.toObject

unsafe-toobject.js

var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var native = mongoose.Document.prototype.toObject;

module.exports = function(schema/* options [could make it safer :)]*/) {
  schema.methods.toObject = function() {
    var _this = this;
    
    var obj = mongoose.Document.prototype.toObject.apply(this, arguments);
    
    var extraneous = Object.keys(this).filter(function(key) {
      return IGNORED_KEYS.indexOf(key) !== -1;
    });
    
    return _.reduce(extraneous, function(key) {
      obj[key] = _this[key];
      return obj;
    }, obj);
  }
};

var IGNORED_KEYS = Object.keys(mongoose.Document.prototype).concat([
  '$__', 'isNew', 'errors', '_maxListeners', '_doc', '_pres', '_posts', 'save', '_events'
  // there's probably a way to infer this
]);