Error in mongodb query to get movie based on id - mongodb

Question

> db.movmodels.findOne()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("55320b0e0e9e0d9d0540593c"),
"username" : "punk",
"favMovies" : [
{
"alternate_ids" : {
"imdb" : "0137523"
},
"abridged_cast" : [
{
"characters" : [
"Tyler"
],
"id" : "162652627",
"name" : "Brad Pitt"
},
{
"characters" : [
"Narrator"
],
"id" : "162660884",
"name" : "Edward Norton"
},
{
"characters" : [
"Robert"
],
"id" : "162676383",
"name" : "Meat Loaf"
},
{
"characters" : [
"Angel Face"
],
"id" : "162653925",
"name" : "Jared Leto"
},
{
"characters" : [
"Boss"
],
"id" : "770706064",
"name" : "Zach Grenier"
}
],
"synopsis" : "",
"ratings" : {
"audience_score" : 96,
"audience_rating" : "Upright",
"critics_score" : 80,
"critics_rating" : "Certified Fresh"
},
"release_dates" : {
"dvd" : "2000-06-06",
"theater" : "1999-10-15"
},
"critics_consensus" : "",
"runtime" : 139,
"mpaa_rating" : "R",
"year" : 1999,
"title" : "Fight Club",
**"id" : "13153"**
}
],
"__v" : 0
}
This is my data in mongodb.
As I am new to mongodb I wanted to know query to get movie with a particular id.
The query that I tried is. I need to get the movie based on id so that I can remove it from my database
db.movmodels.findOne({username:"punk"},{favMovies:{id:13153}})
but this gives me error.
2015-04-18T05:41:26.221-0400 E QUERY Error: error: {
"$err" : "Can't canonicalize query: BadValue ported projection option: favMovies: { id: 13153.0 }",
"code" : 17287
}
at Error (<anonymous>)
at DBQuery.next (src/mongo/shell/query.js:259:15)
at DBCollection.findOne (src/mongo/shell/collection.js:188:22)
at (shell):1:14 at src/mongo/shell/query.js:259

Answer 1

There are several problems with your query:
The second parameter to find() is a projection, not part of the query. What you want is to supply one document for the query that has two properties: {"username" : "punk", favMovies : { ... } }
However, you also don't want to compare the entire sub-document favMovies, but you only want to match on one of its properties, the id, which requires to 'reach into the object' using the dot operator: {username:"punk", "favMovies.id" : 13153}.
However, that will probably not work yet, because 13153 is not the same as "13153", the latter being a string while the former is a number in JSON.
db.movmodels.findOne({username:"punk", "favMovies.id" : "13153"})
Keep in mind, however, that this will find the entire document for the user named "punk". I'm not sure what exactly your data structure should look like, but it appears you'll have to $pull the movie from the user. In general, I'd say you're embedding too much data into the user, but that's hard to tell without knowing the exact use case.

Answer 2

Here you go:
If you just wanted to get first user who has this fav movie:
db.movmodels.findOne({"favMovies.id": 13153});
And, if you want to know if that user has that movie as favorite.
db.movmodels.findOne({"favMovies.id": 13153, username:"punk"});
Second argument in the findOne is used to only return particular field.

Answer 3

You can use also $elemMatch projection operator (not to be confused with the $elemMatch query operator)
db.movmodels.find({username:"punk"},{favMovies:{$elemMatch:{id:"13153"}}});
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Answer 4

If you want to find a movie that has another movie (with id 13153) in 'favMovies' array, then write the query as below:
db.movmodels.findOne({username:"punk",'favMovies.id':13153})
And if you want to find a movie with _id 55320b0e0e9e0d9d0540593cwrite the following query:
db.movmodels.findOne({username:"punk",'_id':ObjectId("55320b0e0e9e0d9d0540593c")})