MongoDB - query references 2 deep of ObjectIDs - mongodb

Question

I've inherited a Azure Cosmos database with a MongoDB API. There is extensive use of "discriminators" so a single collection has many different models.
I am trying to query a document three levels deep based on document ids (ObjectId())
Parent Group
{
_id: ObjectId(),
__type: "ParentGroup",
name: "group 1",
subgroups: [
...ObjectIds,
],
}
Sub Group
{
_id: ObjectId(),
__type: "SubGroup",
name: "a text name",
members: [
...ObjectIds,
],
}
Member
{
_id: ObjectId(),
__type: "Member",
name: "string",
email: "",
induction: Date,
}
Examples I've seen deal with nested documents NOT references
Is it possible to query the Member documents and return?
[
{
parentGroup,
subgroups: [
{sub group, members: [...members]},
{sub group, members: [...members]},
{sub group, members: [...members]},
]
},
]
After reading the comments and further reading i've got this. Its almost there but I think the limitation of MongoDB will prevent the solution being in a single query. The goal is to return ParentGroups->Subgroups->Members Where Members have an "induction" value of "whatever". I am either returning ALL ParentGroups or nothing at all
db.development.aggregate([
{
$match: {
__type: "ParentGroup", $expr: {
$gt: [
{ $size: "$subgroups" }, 0
]
}
}
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "development",
localField: "subgroups",
foreignField: "_id",
as: "subgroups"
}
},
{
$unwind: {
path: "$subgroups",
// preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true
}
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "development",
localField: "subgroups.members",
foreignField: "_id",
as: "subgroups.members"
}
}
])

Answer 1

Solution that worked for me:
db.development.aggregate([
{
$match: {
__type: "ParentGroup",
},
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "development",
localField: "subgroups",
foreignField: "_id",
as: "subgroups",
},
},
{
$unwind: {
path: "$subgroups",
preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true,
},
},
{
$lookup: {
from: "development",
localField: "subgroups.members",
foreignField: "_id",
as: "subgroups.activities_x",
},
},
{
$unwind: {
path: "$subgroups.members",
preserveNullAndEmptyArrays: true,
},
},
{
$match: { "subgroups.members.meta": { $exists: true } },
},
{
$project: {
_id: 1,
__type: 1,
name: 1,
subgroups: {
_id: 1,
__type: 1,
name: 1,
members: {
_id: 1,
__type: 1,
name: 1,
meta: 1,
},
},
},
},
]);