working localized flexible content, missing autopopulated flexible content

src/localization/localization.plugin.js

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export default function localizationPlugin(schema, options) {
     if (path.endsWith('global.en')) {
       recurse = false;
     }
+
     if (schemaType.schema) { // propagate plugin initialization for sub-documents schemas
       schemaType.schema.plugin(localizationPlugin, pluginOptions);
       if (!recurse)
@@ -34,10 +35,6 @@ export default function localizationPlugin(schema, options) {
       return;
     }
 
-    if (!((schemaType instanceof mongoose.Schema.Types.String) || (schemaType instanceof mongoose.Schema.Types.Embedded))) {
-      throw new mongoose.Error('localization can only be used on type String or Embedded');
-    }
-
     let pathArray = path.split('.'),
       key = pathArray.pop(),
       prefix = pathArray.join('.');
@@ -54,7 +51,6 @@ export default function localizationPlugin(schema, options) {
     }, schema.tree);
     delete tree[key];
 
-
     schema.virtual(path)
       .get(function () {
 
@@ -89,8 +85,9 @@ export default function localizationPlugin(schema, options) {
         return value;
       })
       .set(function (value) {
+
         // multiple locales are set as an object
-        if (typeof value === 'object') {
+        if (typeof value === 'object' && !Array.isArray(value)) {
           let locales = this.schema.options.localization.locales;
           locales.forEach(locale => {
             if (!value[locale]) {
@@ -99,6 +96,7 @@ export default function localizationPlugin(schema, options) {
             }
             this.set(`${path}.${locale}`, value[locale]);
           }, this);
+          return;
         }
 
         // embedded and sub-documents will use locale methods from the top level document

src/mongoose/schema/fieldToSchemaMap.js

@@ -63,30 +63,22 @@ const fieldToSchemaMap = {
     };
   },
   flexible: (field, options = {}) => {
-    const flexible = {
+    const schema = new mongoose.Schema({
       value: {
-        type: mongoose.Types.ObjectId,
         autopopulate: true,
+        type: mongoose.Types.ObjectId,
         refPath: `${options.path ? (options.path + '.') : ''}${field.name}.blockType`,
       },
       blockType: { type: String, enum: field.blocks },
       _id: false,
-    };
+    });
 
-    const schema = new mongoose.Schema(
-      field.hasMany !== false ? [flexible] : flexible,
-      {
-        hasMany: field.hasMany,
-        localized: field.localized || false,
-      }
-    );
-
-    if (field.localized) {
-      schema.plugin(localizationPlugin, options.localization);
-    }
     schema.plugin(autopopulate);
 
-    return schema;
+    return {
+      localized: field.localized || false,
+      type: [schema],
+    }
   },
 };