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have wrote a little workaround till this bug is fixed:

function addToPhpillowDocumentArray($document, $documentProperty, $addDocument){
        $classname = get_class($addDocument);
        $array = $document->$documentProperty;
        $newArray = array();
        if( is_array($array) ){
                foreach($array as $value){
                        $tempDocument = new $classname;
                        $newArray[] = $tempDocument->fetchById($value);
                }
        }
        $newArray[] = $addDocument;
        $document->$documentProperty = $newArray;
}

You need to do that manually. Imagine that the referenced documents again reference other documents. The following situations could occur and would need to be handled:

1. Deep object tree: There could be multiple layers of documents, which all then get automatically fetched. Not all documents might be required by the application, thus a fetch limit had to be configured.

2. Cyclic references: It might always occur that document A references document B, which then again references document A (or even more indirectly). Such cases would need to be handled - this would require an identity session or alike.

We could implement this by lazy loading of the related documents but there is no functionality for this right now. (Only set the ID n the document and fetch everything else on first property access.) This also might cause lots of queries, entirely transparent to the user, so he / she would not even notice. For retrieval of complex object graphs ("JOIN queries") you'd normally write a view and use ?include_docs=true.