Mongo DB find value in array of multiple nested arrays - arrays

Question

I need to check if an ObjectId exists in a non nested array and in multiple nested arrays, I've managed to get very close using the aggregation framework, but got stuck in the very last step.
My documents have this structure:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("605ce5f063b1c2eb384c2b7f"),
"name" : "Test",
"attrs" : [
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639616"),
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639627"),
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639622"),
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d2863962e")
],
"variations" : [
{
"varName" : "Var1",
"attrs" : [
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639616"),
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639627"),
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639622"),
ObjectId("60591791d4d41d0a6817d23f")
],
},
{
"varName" : "Var2",
"attrs" : [
ObjectId("60591791d4d41d0a6817d22a"),
ObjectId("60591791d4d41d0a6817d255"),
ObjectId("6058e94c3994d04d28639622"),
ObjectId("60591791d4d41d0a6817d23f")
],
},
],
"storeId" : "9acdq9zgke49pw85"
}
Let´s say I need to check if this if this _id exists "6058e94c3994d04d28639616" in all arrays named attrs.
My aggregation query goes like this:
db.product.aggregate([
{
$match: {
storeId,
},
},
{
$project: {
_id: 0,
attrs: 1,
'variations.attrs': 1,
},
},
{
$project: {
attrs: 1,
vars: '$variations.attrs',
},
},
{
$unwind: '$vars',
},
{
$project: {
attr: {
$concatArrays: ['$vars', '$attrs'],
},
},
},
]);
which results in this:
[
{
attr: [
6058e94c3994d04d28639616,
6058e94c3994d04d28639627,
6058e94c3994d04d28639622,
6058e94c3994d04d2863962e,
6058e94c3994d04d28639616,
6058e94c3994d04d28639627,
6058e94c3994d04d28639622,
60591791d4d41d0a6817d23f,
60591791d4d41d0a6817d22a,
60591791d4d41d0a6817d255,
6058e94c3994d04d28639622,
60591791d4d41d0a6817d23f
]
},
{
attr: [
60591791d4d41d0a6817d22a,
60591791d4d41d0a6817d255,
6058e94c3994d04d28639622,
60591791d4d41d0a6817d23f,
6058e94c3994d04d28639624,
6058e94c3994d04d28639627,
6058e94c3994d04d28639628,
6058e94c3994d04d2863963e
]
}
]
Assuming I have two products in my DB, I get this result. Each element in the outermost array is a different product.
The last bit, which is checking for this key "6058e94c3994d04d28639616", I could not find a way to do it with $group, since I dont have keys to group on.
Or with $match, adding this to the end of the aggregation:
{
$match: {
attr: "6058e94c3994d04d28639616",
},
},
But that results in an empty array. I know that $match does not query arrays like this, but could not find a way to do it with $in as well.
Is this too complicated of a Schema? I cannot have the original data embedded, since it is mutable and I would not be happy to change all products if something changed.
Will this be very expensive if I had like 10000 products?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You are trying to compare string 6058e94c3994d04d28639616 with ObjectId. Convert the string to ObjectId using $toObjectId operator when perform $match operation like this:
{
$match: {
$expr: {
$in: [{ $toObjectId: "6058e94c3994d04d28639616" }, "$attr"]
}
}
}