Combine results based on condition during group by - mongodb

Question

Mongo query generated out of java code:
{
"pipeline": [{
"$match": {
"Id": "09cd9a5a-85c5-4948-808b-20a52d92381a"
}
},
{
"$group": {
"_id": "$result",
"id": {
"$first": "$result"
},
"labelKey": {
"$first": {
"$ifNull": ["$result",
"$result"]
}
},
"value": {
"$sum": 1
}
}
}]
}
Field 'result' can have values like Approved, Rejected, null and "" (empty string). What I am trying to achieve is combining the count of both null and empty together.
So that the empty string Id will have the count of both null and "", which is equal to 4

Answer 1

I'm sure theres a more "proper" way but this is what i could quickly come up with:
[
{
"$group" : {
"_id" : "$result",
"id" : {
"$first" : "$result"
},
"labelKey" : {
"$first" : {
"$ifNull" : [
"$result",
"$result"
]
}
},
"value" : {
"$sum" : 1.0
}
}
},
{
"$group" : {
"_id" : {
"$cond" : [{
$or: [
{"$eq": ["$_id", "Approved"]},
{"$eq": ["$_id", "Rejected"]},
]}},
"$_id",
""
]
},
"temp" : {
"$push" : {
"_id" : "$_id",
"labelKey" : "$labelKey"
}
},
"count" : {
"$sum" : "$value"
}
}
},
{
"$unwind" : "$temp"
},
{
"$project" : {
"_id" : "$temp._id",
"labelKey": "$temp.labelKey",
"count" : "$count"
}
}
],
);
Due to the fact the second group is only on 4 documents tops i don't feel too bad about doing this.

Answer 2

I have used $facet.
The MongoDB stage $facet lets you run several independent pipelines within the stage of a pipeline, all using the same data. This means that you can run several aggregations with the same preliminary stages, and successive stages.
var queries = [{
"$match": {
"Id": "09cd9a5a-85c5-4948-808b-20a52d92381a"
}
},{
$facet: {//
"empty": [
{
$match : {
result : { $in : ['',null]}
}
},{
"$group" : {
"_id" : null,
value : { $sum : 1}
}
}
],
"non_empty": [
{
$match : {
result : { $nin : ['',null]}
}
},{
"$group" : {
"_id" : '$result',
value : { $sum : 1}
}
}
]
}
},
{
$project: {
results: {
$concatArrays: [ "$empty", "$non_empty" ]
}
}
}];
Output :
{
"results": [{
"_id": null,
"value": 52 // count of both '' and null.
}, {
"_id": "Approved",
"value": 83
}, {
"_id": "Rejected",
"value": 3661
}]
}

Answer 3

Changing the group by like below solved the problem
{
"$group": {
"_id": {
"$ifNull": ["$result", ""]
},
"id": {
"$first": "$result"
},
"labelKey": {
"$first": {
"$ifNull": ["$result",
"$result"]
}
},
"value": {
"$sum": 1
}
}
}