Project values of different columns into one field - mongodb

Question

{
"_id" : ObjectId("5ae84dd87f5b72618ba7a669"),
"main_sub" : "MATHS",
"reporting" : [
{
"teacher" : "ABC"
}
],
"subs" : [
{
"sub" : "GEOMETRIC",
"teacher" : "XYZ",
}
]
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5ae84dd87f5b72618ba7a669"),
"main_sub" : "SOCIAL SCIENCE",
"reporting" : [
{
"teacher" : "XYZ"
}
],
"subs" : [
{
"sub" : "CIVIL",
"teacher" : "ABC",
}
]
}
I have simplified the structure of the documents that i have.
The basic structure is that I have a parent subject with an array of reporting teachers and an array of sub-subjects(each having a teacher)
I now want to extract all the subject(parent/sub-subjects) along with the condition if they are sub-subjects or not which are taught by a particular teacher.
For eg:
for teacher ABC i want the following structure:
[{'subject':'MATHS', 'is_parent':'True'}, {'subject':'CIVIL', 'is_parent':'FALSE'}]
-- What is the most efficient query possible ..? I have tried $project with $cond and $switch but in both the cases I have had to repeat the conditional statement for 'subject' and 'is_parent'
-- Is it advised to do the computation in a query or should I get the data dump and then modify the structure in the server code? AS in, I could $unwind and get a mapping of the parent subjects with each sub-subject and then do a for loop.
I have tried
db.collection.aggregate(
{$unwind:'$reporting'},
{$project:{
'result':{$cond:[
{$eq:['ABC', '$reporting.teacher']},
"$main_sub",
"$subs.sub"]}
}}
)
then I realised that even if i transform the else part into another query for the sub-subjects I will have to write the exact same thing for the property of is_parent

Answer 1

You have 2 arrays, so you need to unwind both - the reporting and the subs.
After that stage each document will have at most 1 parent teacher-subj and at most 1 sub teacher-subj pairs.
You need to unwind them again to have a single teacher-subj per document, and it's where you define whether it is parent or not.
Then you can group by teacher. No need for $conds, $filters, or $facets. E.g.:
db.collection.aggregate([
{ $unwind: "$reporting" },
{ $unwind: "$subs" },
{ $project: {
teachers: [
{ teacher: "$reporting.teacher", sub: "$main_sub", is_parent: true },
{ teacher: "$subs.teacher", sub: "$subs.sub", is_parent: false }
]
} },
{ $unwind: "$teachers" },
{ $group: {
_id: "$teachers.teacher",
subs: { $push: {
subject: "$teachers.sub",
is_parent: "$teachers.is_parent"
} }
} }
])