mongodb aggregation $group and then $push a object - mongodb

Question

this is my data :
> db.bookmarks.find({"userId" : "56b9b74bf976ab70ff6b9999"}).pretty()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("56c2210fee4a33579f4202dd"),
"userId" : "56b9b74bf976ab70ff6b9999",
"items" : [
{
"itemId" : "28",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:28Z"
},
{
"itemId" : "29",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:29Z"
},
{
"itemId" : "30",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:30Z"
},
{
"itemId" : "31",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:31Z"
},
{
"itemId" : "32",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:32Z"
},
{
"itemId" : "33",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:33Z"
},
{
"itemId" : "34",
"timestamp" : "2016-02-12T18:07:34Z"
}
]
}
I want to have something like (actually i hope the _id can become userId too) :
{
"_id" : "56b9b74bf976ab70ff6b9999",
"items" : [
{ "itemId": "32", "timestamp": "2016-02-12T18:07:32Z" },
{ "itemId": "31", "timestamp": "2016-02-12T18:07:31Z" },
{ "itemId": "30", "timestamp": "2016-02-12T18:07:30Z" }
]
}
What I have now :
> db.bookmarks.aggregate(
... { $match: { "userId" : "56b9b74bf976ab70ff6b9999" } },
... { $unwind: '$items' },
... { $sort: { 'items.timestamp': -1} },
... { $skip: 2 },
... { $limit: 3},
... { $group: { '_id': '$userId' , items: { $push: '$items.itemId' } } }
... ).pretty()
{ "_id" : "56b9b74bf976ab70ff6b9999", "items" : [ "32", "31", "30" ] }
i tried to read the document in mongo and find out i can $push, but somehow i cannot find a way to push such object, which is not defined anywhere in the whole object. I want to have the timestamp also.. but i don't know how should i modified the $group (or others??) to do so. thanks for helping!

Answer 1

This code, which I tested in the MongoDB 3.2.1 shell, should give you the output format that you want:
> db.bookmarks.aggregate(
{ "$match" : { "userId" : "Ursula" } },
{ "$unwind" : "$items" },
{ "$sort" : { "items.timestamp" : -1 } },
{ "$skip" : 2 },
{ "$limit" : 3 },
{ "$group" : { "_id" : "$userId", items: { "$push" : { "myPlace" : "$items.itemId", "myStamp" : "$items.timestamp" } } } } ).pretty()
Running the above will produce this output:
{
"_id" : "Ursula",
"items" : [
{
"myPlace" : "52",
"myStamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:32Z")
},
{
"myPlace" : "51",
"myStamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:31Z")
},
{
"myPlace" : "50",
"myStamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:30Z")
}
]
}
In MongoDB version 3.2.x, you can also use the $out operator in the very last stage of the aggregation pipeline, and have the output of the aggregation query written to a collection. Here is the code I used:
> db.bookmarks.aggregate(
{ "$match" : { "userId" : "Ursula" } },
{ "$unwind" : "$items" },
{ "$sort" : { "items.timestamp" : -1 } },
{ "$skip" : 2 },
{ "$limit" : 3 },
{ "$group" : { "_id" : "$userId", items: { "$push" : { "myPlace" : "$items.itemId", "myStamp" : "$items.timestamp" } } } },
{ "$out" : "ursula" } )
This gives me a collection named "ursula":
> show collections
ursula
and I can query that collection:
> db.ursula.find().pretty()
{
"_id" : "Ursula",
"items" : [
{
"myPlace" : "52",
"myStamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:32Z")
},
{
"myPlace" : "51",
"myStamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:31Z")
},
{
"myPlace" : "50",
"myStamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:30Z")
}
]
}
>
Last of all, this is the input document I used in the aggregation query. You can compare this document to how I coded the aggregation query to see how I built the new items array.
> db.bookmarks.find( { "userId" : "Ursula" } ).pretty()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("56c240ed55f2f6004dc3b25c"),
"userId" : "Ursula",
"items" : [
{
"itemId" : "48",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:28Z")
},
{
"itemId" : "49",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:29Z")
},
{
"itemId" : "50",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:30Z")
},
{
"itemId" : "51",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:31Z")
},
{
"itemId" : "52",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:32Z")
},
{
"itemId" : "53",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:33Z")
},
{
"itemId" : "54",
"timestamp" : ISODate("2016-02-13T18:07:34Z")
}
]
}