MongoDB: projection $ when find document into nested arrays - mongodb

Question

I have the following document of collection "user" than contains two nested arrays:
{
"person" : {
"personId" : 78,
"firstName" : "Mario",
"surname1" : "LOPEZ",
"surname2" : "SEGOVIA"
},
"accounts" : [
{
"accountId" : 42,
"accountRegisterDate" : "2018-01-04",
"banks" : [
{
"bankId" : 1,
"name" : "Bank LTD",
},
{
"bankId" : 2,
"name" : "Bank 2 Corp",
}
]
},
{
"accountId" : 43,
"accountRegisterDate" : "2018-01-04",
"banks" : [
{
"bankId" : 3,
"name" : "Another Bank",
},
{
"bankId" : 4,
"name" : "BCT bank",
}
]
}
]
}
I'm trying to get a query that will find this document and get only this subdocument at output:
{
"bankId" : 3,
"name" : "Another Bank",
}
I'm getting really stucked. If I run this query:
{ "accounts.banks.bankId": "3" }
Gets the whole document. And I've trying combinations of projection with no success:
{"accounts.banks.0.$": 1} //returns two elements of array "banks"
{"accounts.banks.0": 1} //empty bank array
Maybe that's not the way to query for this and I'm going in bad direction.
Can you please help me?

Answer 1

You can try following solution:
db.user.aggregate([
{ $unwind: "$accounts" },
{ $match: { "accounts.banks.bankId": 3 } },
{
$project: {
items: {
$filter: {
input: "$accounts.banks",
as: "bank",
cond: { $eq: [ "$$bank.bankId", 3 ] }
}
}
}
},
{
$replaceRoot : {
newRoot: { $arrayElemAt: [ "$items", 0 ] }
}
}
])
To be able to filter accounts by bankId you need to $unwind them. Then you can match accounts to the one having bankId equal to 3. Since banks is another nested array, you can filter it using $filter operator. This will give you one element nested in items array. To get rid of the nesting you can use $replaceRoot with $arrayElemAt.