I'm trying to update an array that sits inside another array in a document. The schema is like this:
const projectSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
stakeholders: [{
stakeholderTitle: {
type: String,
},
...
subgroup: [{
subgroupTitle: {
type: String
},
subgroupPercent: {
type: Number,
}
}]
}],
and I'm trying to update the 'subgroup' array. I have got the query to work on its parent (the stakeholder array) with the positional $ operator, using the answer to this question I asked previously. So my query looks like this.....
await db.findOneAndUpdate({ find by the id }, { "stakeholders.$.stakeholderTitle": req.body.stakeholderTitle, ... "stakeholders.$.subgroup": req.body.subgroup })
However, this query doesn't work for the 'stakeholders subgroup' array, and makes it null. Looking through the mongo docs for the positional operator it states that 'The positional $ operator cannot be used for queries which traverse more than one array, such as queries that traverse arrays nested within other arrays, because the replacement for the $ placeholder is a single value', which I guess might be my problem.
So how can I do this with a findOneAndUpdate query?
From what I see is you have to specify the object you want to update inside the subgroup array. Try this - (i.e I'm updating the subgroupTitle of the subgroup array);
await db.findOneAndUpdate(
{
_id: userId,
"stakeholders.stakeholderTitle": req.body.stakeholderTitle,
"stakeholders.stakeholderTitle.subgroup.subgroupTitle": req.body.subgroupTitle
},
{$set: {
"stakeholders.stakeholderTitle.subgroup.$.subgroupPercent": somePercentValue,
}
},
);
Also note, it's only the array that you find that you can update. It might not be exactly what you want, but its a step closer
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I've got a collection in MongoDB whose simplified version looks like this:
Dealers = [{
Id: 123,
Name: 'Someone',
Email: 'someone#somewhere.com',
Vehicles: [
{
Id: 1234,
Make: 'Honda',
Model: 'Civic'
},
{
Id: 2345,
Make: 'Ford',
Model: 'Focus'
},
{
Id: 3456,
Make: 'Ford',
Model: 'KA'
}
]
}]
And my Mongoose Model looks a bit like this:
const vehicle_model = mongoose.Schema({
Id: {
Type: Number
},
Email: {
Type: String
},
Vehicles: [{
Id: {
Type: Number
},
Make: {
Type: String
},
Model: {
Type: String
}
}]
})
Note the Ids are not MongoDB Ids, just distinct numbers.
I try doing something like this:
const response = await vehicle_model.findOne({ 'Id': 123, 'Vehicles.Id': 1234 })
But when I do:
console.log(response.Vehicles.length)
It's returned all the Vehicles nested records instead on the one I'm after.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
This question is asked very frequently. Indeed someone asked a related question here just 18 minutes before this one.
When query the database you are requesting that it identify and return matching documents to the client. That is a separate action entirely than asking for it to transform the shape of those documents before they are sent back to the client.
In MongoDB, the latter operation (transforming the shape of the document) is usually referred to as "Projection". Simple projections, specifically just returning a subset of the fields, can be done directly in find() (and similar) operations. Most drivers and the shell use the second argument to the method as the projection specification, see here in the documentation.
Your particular case is a little more complicated because you are looking to trim off some of the values in the array. There is a dedicated page in the documentation titled Project Fields to Return from Query which goes into more detail about different situations. Indeed near the bottom is a section titled Project Specific Array Elements in the Returned Array which describes your situation more directly. In it is where they describe usage of the positional $ operator. You can use that as a starting place as follows:
db.collection.find({
"Id": 123,
"Vehicles.Id": 1234
},
{
"Vehicles.$": 1
})
Playground demonstration here.
If you need something more complex, then you would have to start exploring usage of the $elemMatch (projection) operator (not the query variant) or, as #nimrod serok mentions in the comments, using the $filter aggregation operator in an aggregation pipeline. The last option here is certainly the most expressive and flexible, but also the most verbose.
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Let's say that we have many documents like this in the photo
I have the above schema. I want to find the document based on _id first and then push an array of values to providedServices which belongs to the _id which is inside barbers array
A little help. Can't seem to find this out!
You need to find the related arrays firstly. For this, you can use $elemMatch or write it as 'barbers._id' : {$elemMatch: parameter}' .
Here we tried to find document with filtering it's own id and barbers id. You can change the filter as you wished. It can be only search on barbers id.
Need to write your DocumentName and your parameters instead of idValue, barbersId, serviceModel.
const result = await DocumentName.findOneAndUpdate(
{
$and:
[
{_id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId(idValue)},
{'barbers': {$elemMatch: {_id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId(barbersId)}}}
]
},
{ $push: { 'barbers.$.providedServices': serviceModel } },
{ new: true })
At first, we found the related barbers array inside of all documents. Then we pushed the model inside of providedServices array into this barbers array.
I want to find entries in my MongoDB collection that match some filters.
Each entry in my mongo collection looks like this data:
{
type: "admin"
senderId: "6131e7c597f50700160703fe"
read_by: [
{
Object_id: 614dbbf83ad51412f16c0757
readerId: "60b968dc5150a20015d6fcae"
}
]
},
{
type: "admin"
senderId: "6131e7c597f50700160703fe"
read_by: [
{}
]
}
What I want to achieve properly, is to filter on the collection and get only the entries that match 'admin' as type and that don't have the current user's ID in the read_by array (that is an array of objects)
I wrote this (and tried some other combinations with errors :) )
but it is not working, I get 0 entries on the end, but I expect to get one of the two as the second have it's read_by array empty.
Thank you very much!
I validated my solution using cloud.mongodb.com interface and the simplest following filter seems to do the job:
{ "read_by.readerId": {$ne:"60b968dc5150a20015d6fcae"}}
Only the record with empty array is being returned.
$nin operator works fine as well but if there is only single value for comparision then $ne should be enough.
{ "read_by.readerId": {$nin: ["60b968dc5150a20015d6fcae"]}}
I have an Collection Model that has a property of items that holds an array of Item Models.
const CollectionSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
title: {
type: String,
required: true
},
items : [{type : mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Item'}]
});
I tried to populate the items array in order to get the objectId's properties, but the items array would return back empty. (The code below is how I populated the items array. I first found the collection I was looking for by the _id using the req.body.search. I then ran .populate("items") in order to populate the items array. What I got back was an empty items array.)
userRouter.post('/iList', passport.authenticate('jwt', {session: false}), (req, res) => {
Collection.findById({_id : req.body.search}).populate("items").exec((err, document) => {
if(err)
res.json(err)
else
res.json({item: document})
})
});
I know my items array isn't empty since I can check on mongoDB that it is full.
The image of my mongoDB collection with an items array that isn't empty.
The weird thing is that if I put "collections" into the .populate params, my Items array does return with stuff, but it only returns the ObjectIDs and not actual object properties. I am confused to why .populate("items") isn't working.
If you are using findById then why are you specifying {_id: req.body.search}. If your req.body.search is a type of mongoose ObjectId string then you can directly use findById(req.body.search) instead of that. Also you can use simply the projection. Second argument in find calls are projections
If you are trying get items array only then why don't you try this query:-
Collection.findById(req.body.search, {items: 1}).then((result) => {
console.log('Items are :-\n', result);
}, (err) => {
console.log(err);
})
1 means include and 0 means exclude. So items will be present in output, also _id is default in output. In case you want to exclude _id then you can change second parameter to this -> {items: 1, _id: 0}
Never mind. The issue was when I pushed the Item Models via mongoose, I forgot to do items.save() which meant the items array held nothing.
At this moment I have a Mongoose/MongoDB schema which has the following field:
cuisines: [{
type: String
}],
I'm trying to find documents that contain one of the results inside the array.. so the array could look like:
[BBQ, Chicken, Asian]
My query currently returns no result:
caterers = await Caterer.find({ cuisines: { $in: [req.body.cuisine] } })
Is there an alternative to $in that finds all documents in which the string passed in the req.body is present?
The string I'm passing in req.body.cuisine is BBQ, however, unless I specify all results stored in the Array, I get no results(?)