This may be a noobie question but, how do I (efficiently) remove all documents from one mongodb collection that match documents found in another collection? For example, using mongo shell, we could do the following:
db.getCollection('coll1').find({}).forEach( function(doc) {
db.getCollection('coll2').remove( { name: doc.name, value: doc.value } );
})
I will suggest to do it using $in with remove by passing array of name or Id's in $in array with remove.
db.getCollection('coll1').find({}).forEach( function(doc) {
// create idsArray from the doc data and pass same in $in
db.getCollection('coll2').remove({ id: { $in: idsArray });
})
I hops it will help. :)
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Let's say that we have many documents like this in the photo
I have the above schema. I want to find the document based on _id first and then push an array of values to providedServices which belongs to the _id which is inside barbers array
A little help. Can't seem to find this out!
You need to find the related arrays firstly. For this, you can use $elemMatch or write it as 'barbers._id' : {$elemMatch: parameter}' .
Here we tried to find document with filtering it's own id and barbers id. You can change the filter as you wished. It can be only search on barbers id.
Need to write your DocumentName and your parameters instead of idValue, barbersId, serviceModel.
const result = await DocumentName.findOneAndUpdate(
{
$and:
[
{_id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId(idValue)},
{'barbers': {$elemMatch: {_id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId(barbersId)}}}
]
},
{ $push: { 'barbers.$.providedServices': serviceModel } },
{ new: true })
At first, we found the related barbers array inside of all documents. Then we pushed the model inside of providedServices array into this barbers array.
I have multiple documents(3 documents in this example) in one collection that looks like this:
{
_id:123,
bizs:[{_id:'',name:'a'},{_id:'',name:'b'}]
},
{
_id:456,
bizs:[{_id:'',name:'e'},{_id:'',name:'f'}]
}
{
_id:789,
bizs:[{_id:'',name:'x'},{_id:'',name:'y'}]
}
Now, I want to update the bizs subdocument by matching with my array of ids.
That is to say, my array filter for update query is [123,789], which will match against the _id fields of each document.
I have tried using findByIdAndUpdate() but that doesn't allow an array for the update query
How can I update the 2 matching documents (like my example above) without having to put findByIdAndUpdate inside a forloop to match the array element with the _id?
You can not use findByIdAndUpdate when updating multiple documents, findByIdAndUpdate is from mongoose which is a wrapper to native MongoDB's findOneAndUpdate. When you pass a single string as a filter to findByIdAndUpdate like : Collection.findByIdAndUpdate({'5e179dac627ef7823643cd97'}, {}) - then mongoose will internally convert string to ObjectId() & form it as a filter like :_id : ObjectId('5e179dac627ef7823643cd97') to execute findOneAndUpdate. So it means you can only update one document at a time, So if you've multiple documents to be updated use update with option {multi : true} or updateMany.
Assume if you wanted to push a new object to bizs, this is how query looks like :
collection.updateMany({ _id: { $in: [123, 456] } }, {
$push: {
bizs: {
"_id": "",
"name": "new"
}
}
})
Note : Update operations doesn't return the documents in response rather they will return write result which has information about n docs matched & n docs modified.
I wish to return just the document id's from mongo that match a find() query.
I know I can pass an object to exclude or include in the result set, however I cannot find a way to just return the _id field.
My thought process is returning just this bit of information is going to be way more efficient (my use case requires no other document data just the ObjectId).
An example query that I expected to work was:
collection.find({}, { _id: 1 }).toArray(function(err, docs) {
...
}
However this returns the entire document and not just the _id field.
You just need to use a projection to find what ya want.
collection.find({filter criteria here}, {foo: 0, bar: 0, _id: 1});
Since I don't know what your document collection looks like this is all I can do for you. foo: 0 for example is exclude this property.
I found that using the cursor object directly I can specify the required projection. The mongodb package on npm when calling toArray() is returning the entire document regardless of the projection specified in the initial find(). Fixed working example below that satisfies my requirements of just getting the _id field.
Example document:
{
_id: new ObjectId(...),
test1: "hello",
test2: "world!"
}
Working Projection
var cursor = collection.find({});
cursor.project({
test1: 0,
test2: 0
});
cursor.toArray(function(err, docs) {
// Importantly the docs objects here only
// have the field _id
});
Because _id is by definition unique, you can use distinct to get an array of the _id values of all documents as:
collection.distinct('_id', function(err, ids) {
...
}
you can do like this
collection.find({},'_id').toArray(function(err, docs) {
...
}
I got a mongo db collection with structure
randomstring - means the string is actually random its diffrent in each document of the collection.
{
"notrandom":{
"randomstring":{
"randomstring":{
"randomstring":{
"notrandom2":"data"
}
}
}
}
}
how can i project this data out?
something like
db.mydb.aggregate( "notrandom[0][0].notrandom2":1}} , ] )
what i'm trying to achieve is a collection of all the notrandom2 values.
if you you to move notrandom2 to higer level in document structure,
you could use $project stage like this:
{
$project:{
_id:1,
notrandom2:"notrandom.randomstring.randomstring.randomstring.notrandom2",
// list all others fields with field:1 if you want them to appear down in pieline
}}
if this field is a part of an array then you need to $unwind first and then $project
You can use the following query
db.mydb.find({<findquery (in you have any)>},{"notrandom.randomstring.randomstring.randomstring.notrandom2" : 1}).
toArray(function(err, result)
{
console.log(result); //Array of objects with `notrandom2` values
})
Hi im trying to simply remove a document from a collection using mongoose but for some strange reason I cannot get it to work.
Here is the code:
function deleteUserevent()
{console.log('in delete User Event');
models.Userevent.remove({ _id: "5214f4050acb53fe31000004"}, function(err) {
if (!err){
console.log('deleted user event!');
}
else {
console.log('error');
}
});
}
Can anyone help me out on my syntax? I know the _id is stored as new ObjectId("5214f4050acb53fe31000004") but I have tried this with no joy?
Thanks.
In MongoDB, the "_id" field of documents is of type ObjectId, as you mentioned. This is not equal to a String, so running the query
db.userevent.remove({ _id: "5214f4050acb53fe31000004"});
will not match anything, and will not remove anything. Instead, you must search for a document where the _id field is an ObjectId with that value:
db.userevents.remove({ _id: ObjectId("5214f4050acb53fe31000004")});
In mongoose, you can use the findByIdAndRemove command to remove a document with a specific _id. This command takes either an ObjectId or a String as an argument, so
query = Userevent.findByIdAndRemove("5214f4050acb53fe31000004");
should work just fine.
Just add exec() after query.
It should work like this:
await models.Userevent.findByIdAndDelete("5214f4050acb53fe31000004").exec()