MongoDB aggregation $elemMatch inside $lookup stage - mongodb

Question

I have a MongoDB collection that is looking like this:
{
players: [
{uuid: "A"},
{uuid: "B"}
]
},
{
players: [
{uuid: "A"},
{uuid: "C"}
]
},
{
players: [
{uuid: "D"},
{uuid: "E"}
]
}
I want to use results of a previous aggregation stage and now find all documents where a player shows up, using a $lookup stage:
from: "collection",
pipeline: [
{
$match: {
players: {
$elemMatch: {
uuid: "$playerId"
}
}
//using "players.uuid": "$playerId" doesn't work either
}
}
],
as: "field"
The input to my $lookup stage looks like this:
{
"playerId" : "A"
}
{
"playerId" : "B"
}
{
"playerId" : "C"
}
This query returns an empty array in field. It seems like $uuid is not getting evaluated correctly, because if I exchange $uuid with a hardcoded value (e.g. A), this query returns results.
I have also tried using the let property, this gave me the same result.
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Using the documents you've provided. I believe this might work for you:
I've used $lookup to do a join onto the collection which holds the playerId, which creates an array called field. I then use $unwind to extract all the array elements from both field and player. Finally I use $cond to crosscheck if both values match.
db.getCollection('foo').aggregate([
{ $lookup : {
from: "bar",
localField: "players.uuid",
foreignField: "playerId",
as: "field"
} },
{ $unwind : "$players" },
{ $unwind : "$field" },
{ $project : {
"players": 1,
"field" : 1,
"isMatch": {
"$cond": [ { "$eq": ["$players.uuid", "$field.playerId"] }, 1, 0 ]
} } }
])
I've purposely left the output verbose..
/* 1 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f534b337e8d2b97ff2ffb"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "A"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5374337e8d2b97ff2ffe"),
"playerId" : "A"
},
"isMatch" : 1.0
}
/* 2 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f534b337e8d2b97ff2ffb"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "A"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f539b337e8d2b97ff2fff"),
"playerId" : "B"
},
"isMatch" : 0.0
}
/* 3 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f534b337e8d2b97ff2ffb"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "B"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5374337e8d2b97ff2ffe"),
"playerId" : "A"
},
"isMatch" : 0.0
}
/* 4 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f534b337e8d2b97ff2ffb"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "B"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f539b337e8d2b97ff2fff"),
"playerId" : "B"
},
"isMatch" : 1.0
}
/* 5 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5356337e8d2b97ff2ffc"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "A"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5374337e8d2b97ff2ffe"),
"playerId" : "A"
},
"isMatch" : 1.0
}
/* 6 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5356337e8d2b97ff2ffc"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "A"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f53a8337e8d2b97ff3000"),
"playerId" : "C"
},
"isMatch" : 0.0
}
/* 7 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5356337e8d2b97ff2ffc"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "C"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5374337e8d2b97ff2ffe"),
"playerId" : "A"
},
"isMatch" : 0.0
}
/* 8 */
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f5356337e8d2b97ff2ffc"),
"players" : {
"uuid" : "C"
},
"field" : {
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f53a8337e8d2b97ff3000"),
"playerId" : "C"
},
"isMatch" : 1.0
}