Getting concrete elements by element field in mongoDB - mongodb

Question

I know that by the title it is not very clear what is my problem, so let me explain it with an example.
Let's suppose I have a collection in a mongo database called tweets whose elements look like this:
{
"id": "tweet_id",
"text": "this is the tweet's text",
"user": {
"id": "user_id",
"name": "user_name",
}
}
Let's suppose that we have 100 documents that look like that, and 10 users with diferent ids and names.
How would look a query to know see the different user_id s that exist in the collection and their names?
The result I want would look like this:
{"user_id1": "user_name1"}
{"user_id2": "user_name2"}
...
{"user_id10": "user_name10"}
Thank you for your help

Answer 1

You can use this aggregation query:
First $group by user.id to get all differents user ids with the name.
And then use $replaceRoot with $arrayToObject to get the desired output format.
db.collection.aggregate([
{
"$group": {
"_id": "$user.id",
"name": {
"$first": "$user.name"
}
}
},
{
"$replaceRoot": {
"newRoot": {
"$arrayToObject": [
[
{
"k": "$_id",
"v": "$name"
}
]
]
}
}
}
])
Example here