MongoDB aggregate using $match with $expr with array - mongodb

Question

MongoDB 5.0.9
I am trying to get
value of application within course and their specification
value of paid application ( status : paid) based on course and their specification
courses collection having multiple courses with specification which might be there maybe not
[
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "62aab6669b3740313d881a30"
},
"course_name": "Master",
"fees": "Rs.1000.0/-",
"course_specialization": [
{
"spec_name": "Social Work",
"is_activated": true
}
],
"college_id": {
"$oid": "628dfd41ef796e8f757a5c13"
},
"is_pg": true
},
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "62aab6669b3740313d881a38"
},
"college_id": {
"$oid": "628dfd41ef796e8f757a5c13"
},
"course_name": "BBA",
"fees": "Rs.1000.0/-",
"is_pg": false,
"course_specialization": null
},
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "628f3967cb69fc0789e69181"
},
"course_name": "BTech",
"fees": "Rs.1000.0/-",
"course_specialization": [
{
"spec_name": "Computer Science and Engineering",
"is_activated": true
},
{
"spec_name": "Mutiple Specs",
"is_activated": true
}
],
"college_id": {
"$oid": "628dfd41ef796e8f757a5c13"
},
"is_pg": false
},
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "628f35a1cb69fc0789e6917e"
},
"course_name": "Bachelor",
"fees": "Rs.1000.0/-",
"course_specialization": [
{
"spec_name": "Social Work",
"is_activated": true
}
],
"college_id": {
"$oid": "628dfd41ef796e8f757a5c13"
},
"is_pg": false
}
],
Student Application forms collection where we are storing student application forms details
[
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "62cd476adbc878a0490e20ee"
},
"spec_name1": "Social Work",
"spec_name2": "",
"spec_name3": "",
"student_id": {
"$oid": "62cd1374dbc878a0490e20a5"
},
"course_id": {
"$oid": "62aab6669b3740313d881a30"
},
"current_stage": 2.5,
"declaration": true,
"payment_info": {
"payment_id": "123458",
"status": "paid"
},
"enquiry_date": {
"$date": {
"$numberLong": "1657620330432"
}
},
"last_updated_time": {
"$date": {
"$numberLong": "1657621796062"
}
}
},
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "62cd476adbc878a0490e20ef"
},
"spec_name1": "",
"spec_name2": "",
"spec_name3": "",
"student_id": {
"$oid": "62cd1374dbc878a0490e20a5"
},
"course_id": {
"$oid": "62aab6669b3740313d881a38"
},
"current_stage": 2.5,
"declaration": true,
"payment_info": {
"payment_id": "123458",
"status": "paid"
},
"enquiry_date": {
"$date": {
"$numberLong": "1657620330432"
}
},
"last_updated_time": {
"$date": {
"$numberLong": "1657621796062"
}
}
},
{
"_id": {
"$oid": "62cdc12000b820f5ea58cc60"
},
"spec_name1": "Social Work",
"spec_name2": "",
"spec_name3": "",
"student_id": {
"$oid": "62cdad90a9b64d58b15e6976"
},
"course_id": {
"$oid": "628f35a1cb69fc0789e6917e"
},
"current_stage": 6.25,
"declaration": false,
"payment_info": {
"payment_id": "",
"status": ""
},
"enquiry_date": {
"$date": {
"$numberLong": "1657651488511"
}
},
"last_updated_time": {
"$date": {
"$numberLong": "1657651987155"
}
}
}
]
Desired output with every specification within the course
[
"_id": {
"coursename": "Master",
"spec": "Social Work",
"Application_Count": 1,
"Paid_Application_Count:0
},
{
"_id": {
"coursename": "Bachelor"
"spec":"" ,
"Application_Count": 1,
"Paid_Application_Count:0
},
{
"_id": {
"coursename": "BBA"
"spec":"" ,
"Application_Count": 1,
"Paid_Application_Count:1
},
]
Aggregation Query
[{
$match: {
college_id: ObjectId('628dfd41ef796e8f757a5c13')
}
}, {
$project: {
_id: 1,
course_name: 1,
course_specialization: 1
}
}, {
$unwind: {
path: '$course_name',
includeArrayIndex: 'course_index',
preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true
}
}, {
$unwind: {
path: '$course_specialization',
includeArrayIndex: 'course_specs_index',
preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true
}
}, {
$lookup: {
from: 'studentApplicationForms',
'let': {
id: '$_id',
spec: '$course_specialization.spec_name'
},
pipeline: [
{
$match: {
$expr: {
$and: [
{
$eq: [
'$course_id',
'$$id'
]
},
{
$eq: [
'$spec_name1',
'$$spec'
]
}
]
}
}
},
{
$project: {
student_id: 1,
payment_info: 1,
spec_name1: 1,
spec_name2: 1,
spec_name3: 1
}
}
],
as: 'student_application'
}
}, {
$unwind: {
path: '$student_application',
includeArrayIndex: 'application',
preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true
}
}, {
$facet: {
course: [
{
$group: {
_id: {
course_name: '$course_name',
spec: '$course_specialization'
},
count: {
$count: {}
}
}
}
],
declatration: [
{
$group: {
_id: {
course_name: '$course_name',
spec: '$course_specialization'
},
count_dec: {
$sum: {
$cond: [
'$student_application.declaration',
1,
0
]
}
}
}
}
],
payment: [
{
$group: {
_id: {
course_name: '$course_name',
spec: '$course_specialization'
},
payment: {
$sum: {
$eq: [
'$student_application.payment_info.status',
'paid'
]
}
}
}
}
]
}
}]
Problem :
I am able to get application count but it is not getting unique value if 2 specs are same then duplicate value is coming as you can see on sample application collection Social Work is in two different course . So my aggregations is not grouping them based in course name.specs
Not able to find correct Paid_Application_Count and Application_Count
Update :
Updated JSON Data Matching use cases with different type of data
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Answer 1

You can do it in several different ways, I took the liberty to simplify the pipeline a little bit.
I will just mention that the structure does not fully make sense to me, and there are some additional contradictions between the sample input you provided and the "text" description/pipeline description.
Just a tiny example is payment_info_status being paid in the sample and capture in the pipeline.
These things will not change the pipeline structure, will just need to be fixed by you based on the actual needs.
db.courses.aggregate([
{
$project: {
_id: 1,
course_name: 1,
course_specialization: 1
}
},
{
$unwind: {
path: "$course_specialization",
preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true
}
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "studentApplicationForms",
"let": {
courseId: "$_id",
spec: {
$ifNull: [
"$course_specialization.spec_name",
""
]
}
},
pipeline: [
{
$match: {
$expr: {
$and: [
{
$eq: [
"$spec_name1",
"$$spec"
]
},
{
$eq: [
"$$courseId",
"$course_id"
]
}
]
}
}
},
{
$project: {
student_id: 1,
payment_info: 1,
spec_name1: 1,
spec_name2: 1,
spec_name3: 1,
declaration: 1,
}
},
{
$group: {
_id: null,
count: {
$sum: 1
},
declatration: {
$sum: {
$cond: [
"$declaration",
1,
0
]
}
},
paid: {
$sum: {
$cond: [
{
$eq: [
"$payment_info.status",
"paid"
]
},
1,
0
]
}
},
}
}
],
as: "student_application"
}
},
{
$project: {
_id: {
coursename: "$course_name",
spec: "$course_specialization.spec_name",
Application_count: {
$ifNull: [
{
$first: "$student_application.count"
},
0
]
},
Declaration_count: {
$ifNull: [
{
$first: "$student_application.declatration"
},
0
]
},
Paid_Application_Count: {
$ifNull: [
{
$first: "$student_application.paid"
},
0
]
},
}
}
}
])
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