Strapi v5's Silent populate Failure with Relation Filters
Symptom: A Relation Everyone Believes Is Empty A document management print preview kept rendering “Uploader: —” for every report. The database had the data. The API returned HTTP 200 OK. Yet the uploadedBy relation came back as null, with no error or warning anywhere. Users assumed reports had no uploader assigned. Authors assumed the UI was broken. Nobody suspected the API, because it was perfectly silent. Where the Bug Lives in the Stack Before the curl session, it helps to fix where the failure happens: ...