Moongose: .populate on key with white space doesn't work - mongodb

Question

I'm using Express and Mongoose to do some database actions. When trying to populate a path where the key includes a whitespace, it basically get's ignored.
MongoDB Model:
const OrgCrimeSchema = new Schema({
gracePeriod: { type: Date, default: Date.now() },
Technical: {
description: String,
difficulty: Number,
owner: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
},
'Social Engineering': { // This one causes issues
description: String,
difficulty: Number,
owner: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
},
});
Find + Populate:
const now = Date.now();
const allOrgCrimes = await OrgCrime.find({ gracePeriod: { $lte: now } })
.populate('Technical.owner', 'name')
.populate('Social Engineering.owner', 'name');
console.log(allOrgCrimes['Social Engineering'][0].owner);
//5fca3b4a86e77b5c8e58b683
console.log(allOrgCrimes['Technical'][0].owner);
// { name: 'npc_alice', _id: 5fae6d7ee60018434108369c }
I assume the path is not being populated because of a white space in the key. I've tried both dot notation and typing {path: 'Social Engineering', select: 'name -id'}, without luck.
Is there any way around this without having to rewrite the schema structure?

Answer 1

In short, there is no way, if we wanted to populate multiple paths at the same time there is this way
for exmaple
Story
.find(...)
.populate('book author') // space delimited path names
.exec()
you can see space delimited path names.
When you pass a key with space,mongoose consider it as populate multiple

Answer 2

As poined out by Mohammad Yaser Ahmadi, there is no solution to this issue today because of populate assumes you're populating multiple instead of trying to read a path name with a space in between. How I 'solved' this was to rewrite the model to this:
const OrgCrimeSchema = new Schema({
gracePeriod: { type: Date, default: Date.now() },
roles: [{
role: String,
description: String,
difficulty: Number,
owner: { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'User' },
}]
})
And then the populate actually get's easier:
.populate('roles.owner', 'name')