MongoDB > extract collection from nested array - mongodb

Question

I've been trying every method I found on SO with no success. Trying
to accomplish a seemingly simple task (very easy with json/lodash for example) in MongoDB..
I have a collection:
db.users >
[
{
_id: 'userid',
profile: {
username: 'abc',
tests: [
{
_id: 'testid',
meta: {
category: 'math',
date: '9/2/2017',
...
}
questions: [
{
type: 'add',
correct: true,
},
{
type: 'subtract',
correct: true,
},
{
type: 'add',
correct: false,
},
{
type: 'multiply',
correct: false,
},
]
},
...
]
}
},
...
]
I want to end up with an array grouped by question type:
[
{
type: 'add',
correct: 5,
wrong: 3,
},
{
type: 'subtract',
correct: 4,
wrong: 9
}
...
]
I've tried different variations of aggregate, last one is:
db.users.aggregate([
{ $match: { 'profile.tests.meta.category': 'math' }},
{
$project: {
tests: {
$filter: {
input: "$profile.tests",
as: "test",
cond: { $eq: ['$$test.meta.category', 'math'] }
}
}
}
},
{
$project: {
question: "$tests.questions"
}
},
{ $unwind: "$questions"},
])
Also tried adding $group at the end of the pipeline:
{
$group:
{
_id: '$questions.type',
res: {
$addToSet: { correct: {$eq:['$questions.chosenAnswer', '$questions.answers.correct'] }
}
}
}
No variation gave me what I'm looking for, I'm sure I'm missing a core concept, I've looked over the documentation and couldn't figure it out.. what I'm basically looking for is a flatMap to extract away all the questions of all users and group them by type.
If anyone can lead me in the right direction, I'll greatly appreciate it :) thx. (Also, I'm using Meteor, so any query has to work in Meteor mongo)

Answer 1

You can try below aggregation in 3.4.
$filter to filter math categories with $map to project questions array in each matching category followed by $reduce and $concatArrays to get all questions into single array for all matching categories.
$unwind questions array and $group by type and $sum to compute correct and wrong count.
db.users.aggregate([
{
"$match": {
"profile.tests.meta.category": "math"
}
},
{
"$project": {
"questions": {
"$reduce": {
"input": {
"$map": {
"input": {
"$filter": {
"input": "$profile.tests",
"as": "testf",
"cond": {
"$eq": [
"$$testf.meta.category",
"math"
]
}
}
},
"as": "testm",
"in": "$$testm.questions"
}
},
"initialValue": [],
"in": {
"$concatArrays": [
"$$value",
"$$this"
]
}
}
}
}
},
{
"$unwind": "$questions"
},
{
"$group": {
"_id": "$questions.type",
"correct": {
"$sum": {
"$cond": [
{
"$eq": [
"$questions.correct",
true
]
},
1,
0
]
}
},
"wrong": {
"$sum": {
"$cond": [
{
"$eq": [
"$questions.correct",
false
]
},
1,
0
]
}
}
}
}
])