MongoDB Aggregation: Filter array with _id as string by ObjectId - mongodb

Question

I have the following collections:
const movieSchema = new Schema({
title: String
...
})
const userSchema = new Schema({
firstName: String,
lastName: String,
movies: [
movie: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'Movie'
},
status: String,
feeling: String
]
...
})
I am trying to match up the movie (with all its details) with the user status and feeling for that movie, with the aggregation:
Movie.aggregate([
{ $match: { _id: ObjectId(movieId) } },
{
$lookup: {
from: 'users',
as: 'user_status',
pipeline: [
{ $match: { _id: ObjectId(userId) } },
{
$project: {
_id: 0,
movies: 1
}
},
{ $unwind: '$movies' }
]
}
},
])
Which returns:
[
{
_id: 610b678702500b0646925542,
title: 'The Shawshank Redemption',
user_status: [
{
"movies": {
"_id": "610b678702500b0646925542",
"status": "watched",
"feeling": "love"
}
},
{
"movies": {
"_id": "610b678502500b0646923627",
"status": "watched",
"feeling": "like"
}
},
{
"movies": {
"_id": "610b678502500b0646923637",
"status": "watched",
"feeling": "like"
}
},
]
}
]
My desired result is to match the first movie in user_status to get the eventual final result:
[
{
_id: 610b678702500b0646925542,
title: 'The Shawshank Redemption',
status: "watched",
feeling: "love"
}
]
I thought the next step in my pipeline would be:
{
$addFields: {
user_status: {
$filter: {
input: '$user_status',
cond: {
$eq: ['$$this.movies._id', '$_id']
}
}
}
}
}
But it doesn't work - Not sure if this $addFields is correct, and one problem I know is that my first _id is an ObjectId and the second appears to be a string.

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you can $filter the user in the already existing $lookup pipeline, which will make things more simple later:
db.movies.aggregate([
{$match: {_id: ObjectId(movieId)}},
{
$lookup: {
from: "users",
as: "user_status",
pipeline: [
{$match: {_id: ObjectId(userId)}},
{$project: {
movies: {
$first: {
$filter: {
input: "$movies",
cond: {$eq: ["$$this.movie", ObjectId(movieId)]}
}
}
}
}
}
]
}
},
{
$project: {
title: 1,
feeling: {$first: "$user_status.movies.feeling"},
status: {$first: "$user_status.movies.status"}
}
}
])
See how it works on the playground example