Assuming that if i have such document
{ "id":"1", "references":["AD1","AD2","AD3"] }
I would like to retrieve single value ("AD1") within the array. is there anyway that i can do that with mongodb query? i have use various way but that it would instead return me the whole array instead of individual single value.
You can do this via $project and $filter:
db.collection.aggregate([
{
$project: {
references: {
$filter: {
input: "$references",
as: "ref",
cond: { $eq: [ "AD1", "$$ref" ] }
}
}
}
}
])
You can see it working here
Note however that $filter is available in mongoDB 3.2 version and higher
I'm trying to find all users except for a few, like this:
// get special user IDs
var special = db.special.find({}, { _id: 1 }).toArray();
// get all users except for the special ones
var users = db.users.find({_id: {$nin: special}});
This doesn't work because the array that I'm passing to $nin is not and array of ObjectId but an array of { _id: ObjectId() }
Variable special looks like this after the first query:
[ { _id: ObjectId(###) }, { _id: ObjectId(###) } ]
But $nin in the second query needs this:
[ ObjectId(###), ObjectId(###) ]
How can I get just the ObjectId() in an array from the first query so that I can use them in the second query?
Or, is there a better way of achieving what I'm trying to do?
Use the cursor.map() method returned by the find() function to transform the list of { _id: ObjectId(###) } documents to an array of ObjectId's as in the following
var special = db.special.find({}, { _id: 1 }).map(function(doc){
return doc._id;
});
Another approach you can consider is using the $lookup operator in the aggregation framework to do a "left outer join" on the special collection and filtering the documents on the new "joined" array field. The filter should match on documents whose array field is empty.
The following example demonstrates this:
db.users.aggregate([
{
"$lookup": {
"from": "special",
"localField": "_id",
"foreignField": "_id",
"as": "specialUsers" // <-- this will produce an arry of "joined" docs
}
},
{ "$match": { "specialUsers.0": { "$exists": false } } } // <-- match on empty array
])
I have a "group" collection which groups documents from another "item" collection. The group collection is simply an array of ObjectId's from the item collection, however I want to make the objects in the group array more complex and still be able to use the $in and $nin operators.
How can I use $in when changing the value used with the $in operator to an object instead of only an ObjectId?
// current group document
{
_id: ObjectId(...),
items: [
ObjectId(...),
ObjectId(...)
]
}
// current item find query
db.item.find({ _id : { $in: group.items } }
I would like to change the group document to look like the following
{
_id: ObjectId(...),
items: [
{ _id : ObjectId(...), name: '...' },
{ _id : ObjectId(...), name: '...' }
]
}
Transform your group array to a simple array of ids to use for your find():
// revised item find logic
var itemGroupItemIds = group.items.map(function(item){
return item._id
});
db.item.find({ _id : { $in: itemGroupItemIds } });
I know that MongoDB supports the syntax find{array.0.field:"value"}, but I specifically want to do this for the last element in the array, which means I don't know the index. Is there some kind of operator for this, or am I out of luck?
EDIT: To clarify, I want find() to only return documents where a field in the last element of an array matches a specific value.
In 3.2 this is possible. First project so that myField contains only the last element, and then match on myField.
db.collection.aggregate([
{ $project: { id: 1, myField: { $slice: [ "$myField", -1 ] } } },
{ $match: { myField: "myValue" } }
]);
You can use $expr ( 3.6 mongo version operator ) to use aggregation functions in regular query.
Compare query operators vs aggregation comparison operators.
For scalar arrays
db.col.find({$expr: {$gt: [{$arrayElemAt: ["$array", -1]}, value]}})
For embedded arrays - Use $arrayElemAt expression with dot notation to project last element.
db.col.find({$expr: {$gt: [{"$arrayElemAt": ["$array.field", -1]}, value]}})
Spring #Query code
#Query("{$expr:{$gt:[{$arrayElemAt:[\"$array\", -1]}, ?0]}}")
ReturnType MethodName(ArgType arg);
Starting Mongo 4.4, the aggregation operator $last can be used to access the last element of an array:
For instance, within a find query:
// { "myArray": ["A", "B", "C"] }
// { "myArray": ["D"] }
db.collection.find({ $expr: { $eq: [{ $last: "$myArray" }, "C"] } })
// { "myArray": ["A", "B", "C"] }
Or within an aggregation query:
db.collection.aggregate([
{ $addFields: { last: { $last: "$myArray" } } },
{ $match: { last: "C" } }
])
use $slice.
db.collection.find( {}, { array_field: { $slice: -1 } } )
Editing:
You can make use of
{ <field>: { $elemMatch: { <query1>, <query2>, ... } } } to find a match.
But it won't give exactly what you are looking for. I don't think that is possible in mongoDB yet.
I posted on the official Mongo Google group here, and got an answer from their staff. It appears that what I'm looking for isn't possible. I'm going to just use a different schema approach.
Version 3.6 use aggregation to achieve the same.
db.getCollection('deviceTrackerHistory').aggregate([
{
$match:{clientId:"12"}
},
{
$project:
{
deviceId:1,
recent: { $arrayElemAt: [ "$history", -1 ] }
}
}
])
You could use $position: 0 whenever you $push, and then always query array.0 to get the most recently added element. Of course then, you wont be able to get the new "last" element.
Not sure about performance, but this works well for me:
db.getCollection('test').find(
{
$where: "this.someArray[this.someArray.length - 1] === 'pattern'"
}
)
You can solve this using aggregation.
model.aggregate([
{
$addFields: {
lastArrayElement: {
$slice: ["$array", -1],
},
},
},
{
$match: {
"lastArrayElement.field": value,
},
},
]);
Quick explanations. aggregate creates a pipeline of actions, executed sequentially, which is why it takes an array as parameter. First we use the $addFields pipeline stage. This is new in version 3.4, and basically means: Keep all the existing fields of the document, but also add the following. In our case we're adding lastArrayElement and defining it as the last element in the array called array. Next we perform a $match pipeline stage. The input to this is the output from the previous stage, which includes our new lastArrayElement field. Here we're saying that we only include documents where its field field has the value value.
Note that the resulting matching documents will include lastArrayElement. If for some reason you really don't want this, you could add a $project pipeline stage after $match to remove it.
For the answer use $arrayElemAt,if i want orderNumber:"12345" and the last element's value $gt than "value"? how to make the $expr? thanks！
For embedded arrays - Use $arrayElemAt expression with dot notation to project last element.
db.col.find({$expr: {$gt: [{"$arrayElemAt": ["$array.field", -1]}, value]}})
db.collection.aggregate([
{
$match: {
$and: [
{ $expr: { $eq: [{ "$arrayElemAt": ["$fieldArray.name", -1] }, "value"] } },
{ $or: [] }
]
}
}
]);
I'm trying to get a specific field from a subdocument array
I'm not gonna include any of the fields in the parent doc
Here is the sample document
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5409dd36b71997726532012d"),
"hierarchies" : [
{
"rank" : 1,
"_id" : ObjectId("5409df85b719977265320137"),
"name" : "CTO",
"userId" : [
ObjectId("53a47a639c52c9d83a2d71db")
]
}
]
}
I would like to return the rank of the hierarchy if the a userId is in the userId array
here's what I have so far in my query
collectionName.find({{hierarchies:
{$elemMatch : {userId: ObjectId("53a47a639c52c9d83a2d71db")}}}
, "hierarchies.$.rank", function(err,data){}
so far it returns the entire object in the hierarchies array I want, but I would like to limit it to just the rank property of the object.
The projection available to .find() queries generally in MongoDB does not do this sort of projection for internal elements of an array. All you can generally do is return the "matched" element of the array entirely.
For what you want, you use the aggregation framework instead, which gives you more control over matching and projection:
Model.aggregate([
{ "$match": {
"hierarchies.userId": ObjectId("53a47a639c52c9d83a2d71db")
}},
{ "$unwind": "$hierarchies" },
{ "$match": {
"hierarchies.userId": ObjectId("53a47a639c52c9d83a2d71db")
}},
{ "$project": {
"rank": "$hierarchies.rank"
}}
],function(err,result) {
})
That basically matches the documents, filters the array content of the document to just the match and then projects only the required field.