Updating an array of objects with a new key in mongoDB - mongodb

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Barrowing the data set, I have something similar to this:
{
'user_id':'{1231mjnD-32JIjn-3213}',
'name':'John',
'campaigns':
[
{
'campaign_id':3221,
'start_date':'12-01-2012',
},
{
'campaign_id':3222,
'start_date':'13-01-2012',
}
]
}
And I want to add a new key in the campaigns like so:
{
'user_id':'{1231mjnD-32JIjn-3213}',
'name':'John',
'campaigns':
[
{
'campaign_id':3221,
'start_date':'12-01-2012',
'worker_id': '00000'
},
{
'campaign_id':3222,
'start_date':'13-01-2012',
'worker_id': '00000'
}
]
}
How to insert/update a new key into an array of objects?
I want to add a new key into every object inside the array with a default value of 00000.
I have tried:
db.test.update({}, {$set: {'campaigns.worker_id': 00000}}, true, true)
db.test.update({}, {$set: {campaigns: {worker_id': 00000}}}, true, true)
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I'm supposing that this operation will occur once, so you can use a script to handle it:
var docs = db.test.find();
for(var i in docs) {
var document = docs[i];
for(var j in document.campaigns) {
var campaign = document.campaigns[j];
campaign.worker_id = '00000';
}
db.test.save(document);
}
The script will iterate over all documents in your collection then over all campaigns in each document, setting the *worker_id* property.
At the end, each document is persisted.

Answer 2

db.test.update({}, {$set: {'campaigns.0.worker_id': 00000}}, true, true
this will update 0 element.
if you want to add a new key into every object inside the array you should use:
$unwind
example:
{
title : "this is my title" ,
author : "bob" ,
posted : new Date() ,
pageViews : 5 ,
tags : [ "fun" , "good" , "fun" ] ,
comments : [
{ author :"joe" , text : "this is cool" } ,
{ author :"sam" , text : "this is bad" }
],
other : { foo : 5 }
}
unwinding tags
db.article.aggregate(
{ $project : {
author : 1 ,
title : 1 ,
tags : 1
}},
{ $unwind : "$tags" }
);
result:
{
"result" : [
{
"_id" : ObjectId("4e6e4ef557b77501a49233f6"),
"title" : "this is my title",
"author" : "bob",
"tags" : "fun"
},
{
"_id" : ObjectId("4e6e4ef557b77501a49233f6"),
"title" : "this is my title",
"author" : "bob",
"tags" : "good"
},
{
"_id" : ObjectId("4e6e4ef557b77501a49233f6"),
"title" : "this is my title",
"author" : "bob",
"tags" : "fun"
}
],
"OK" : 1
}
After you could write simple updaiting query.