I have a document with an array field, similar to this:
{
"_id" : "....",
"Statuses" : [
{ "Type" : 1, "Timestamp" : ISODate(...) },
{ "Type" : 2, "Timestamp" : ISODate(...) },
//Etc. etc.
]
}
How can I update a specific Status item's Timestamp, by specifying its Type value?
From mongodb shell you can do this by
db.your_collection.update(
{ _id: ObjectId("your_objectid"), "Statuses.Type": 1 },
{ $set: { "Statuses.$.Timestamp": "new timestamp" } }
)
so the c# equivalent
var query = Query.And(
Query.EQ("_id", "your_doc_id"),
Query.EQ("Statuses.Type", 1)
);
var result = your_collection.Update(
query,
Update.Set("Statuses.$.Timestamp", "new timestamp", UpdateFlags.Multi,SafeMode.True)
);
This will update the specific document, you can remove _id filter if you wanted to update the whole collection
Starting with MongoDB 3.6, the $[<identifier>] positional operator may be used. Unlike the $ positional operator — which updates at most one array element per document — the $[<identifier>] operator will update every matching array element. This is useful for scenarios where a given document may have multiple matching array elements that need to be updated.
db.yourCollection.update(
{ _id: "...." },
{ $set: {"Statuses.$[element].Timestamp": ISODate("2021-06-23T03:47:18.548Z")} },
{ arrayFilters: [{"element.Type": 1}] }
);
The arrayFilters option matches the array elements to update, and the $[element] is used within the $set update operator to indicate that only array elements that matched the arrayFilter should be updated.
Related
I have a large amount of data (~160M items) where a date value wasn't populated on the sub-document array fields, but was populated on the parent document. I'm very new to MongoDB and having trouble figuring out how to $set the field to match. Here's a sample of the data:
{
"_id": "5f11d4c48663f32e940696ed",
"Widgets":[{
"WidgetId":663,
"Name":"Super Widget 2.0",
"Created":null,
"LastUpdated":null
}],
"Status":3,
"LastUpdated":null,
"Created": "2018-11-09T18:22:16.000Z"
}
}
My knowledge of MongoDB is pretty limited but here's the basic aggregation I have created for part of the pipeline and where I'm struggling:
db.sample.aggregate(
[
{
"$match" : {
"Donors.$.Created" : {
"$exists" : true
}
}
},
{
"$match" : {
"Widgets.$.Created" : null
}
},
{
"$set" : {
"Widgets.$.Created" : "Created" // <- This is where I can't figure out how to define the reference to the parent "Created" field
}
}
]
);
The desired output would be:
{
"_id": "5f11d4c48663f32e940696ed",
"Widgets":[{
"WidgetId":663,
"Name":"Super Widget 2.0",
"Created":"2018-11-09T18:22:16.000Z",
"LastUpdated":null
}],
"Status":3,
"LastUpdated":null,
"Created": "2018-11-09T18:22:16.000Z"
}
}
Thanks for any assitance
Are you attempting to add the Created field to sub documents on query/aggregation? Or are you attempting to update/save the Created field on the subdocuments?
The $ is an update operator, to be used with updateMany or updateOne. Not aggregate.
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/query-array/
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/update-array/
If you just want to add the parents Created field to all subdocuments on query/aggregation this is all you have to do: https://mongoplayground.net/p/yHDHULCSTIz
db.collection.aggregate([
{
"$addFields": {
"Widgets.Created": "$Created"
}
}
])
If your attempting to save the parents Created field to all subdocuments:
db.sample.updateMany({"Widgets.Created" : null}, [{$set: {"Widgets.Created" : "$Created"}}])
Note: This matches any doc that has a subdocument with a null Created field and updates all the subdocuments.
Let's say I have a collection with this single document:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("…"),
"cartId" : "61",
"items" : [
{
"prodType" : "hardware",
"prod" : "screwdriver",
"checked": false
},
{
"prodType" : "hardware",
"prod" : "hammer",
"checked": false
},
{
"prodType" : "decor",
"prod" : "vase",
"checked": false
}
]
}
And I want to do findAndModify to find any hardware product and modify its checked field. Then it will look like this:
db.col.findAndModify({
query: {
items: {
$elemMatch: {
prodType: "hardware"
}
}
},
update: {
$set: {
"items.$.checked": true
}
}
})
Okay, but this isn't the whole story. findAndModify will return the whole matched document, and I want to project specifically the array item that was matched (and also modified), so I'll add a fields section to my query:
db.col.findAndModify({
query: {
items: {
$elemMatch: {
prodType: "hardware"
}
}
},
update: {
$set: {
"items.$.checked": true
}
},
fields: {
items: {
$elemMatch: {
prodType: "hardware"
}
}
}
})
And now to the question: does MongoDB guarantee that the returned array item from my query is the exact same one that was matched (and modified) in the update section even though we have two items matching the criteria?
YES. It will return only the first sub-document that matched your criteria and was modified in the update section as shown here
According to the official docs, then yes - the projected array element is the exact one that was modified using the same one modified by the positional operator.
$ (update) states:
the positional $ operator acts as a placeholder for the first element that matches the query document
and $elemMatch (projection) states:
The $elemMatch operator limits the contents of an <array> field from the query results to contain only the first element matching the $elemMatch condition
They both apply to the first array element so it directly implies that the modified array element is the one that is projected
I have a collection of documents where a "tags" field was switched over from being a space separated list of tags to an array of individual tags. I want to update the previous space-separated fields to all be arrays like the new incoming data.
I'm also having problems with the $type selector because it is applying the type operation to individual array elements, which are strings. So filtering by type just returns everything.
How can I get every document that looks like the first example into the format for the second example?
{
"_id" : ObjectId("12345"),
"tags" : "red blue green white"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("54321"),
"tags" : [
"red",
"orange",
"black"
]
}
We can't use the $type operator to filter our documents here because the type of the elements in our array is "string" and as mentioned in the documentation:
When applied to arrays, $type matches any inner element that is of the specified BSON type. For example, when matching for $type : 'array', the document will match if the field has a nested array. It will not return results where the field itself is an array.
But fortunately MongoDB also provides the $exists operator which can be used here with a numeric array index.
Now how can we update those documents?
Well, from MongoDB version <= 3.2, the only option we have is mapReduce() but first let look at the other alternative in the upcoming release of MongoDB.
Starting from MongoDB 3.4, we can $project our documents and use the $split operator to split our string into an array of substrings.
Note that to split only those "tags" which are string, we need a logical $condition processing to split only the values that are string. The condition here is $eq which evaluate to true when the $type of the field is equal to "string". By the way $type here is new in 3.4.
Finally we can overwrite the old collection using the $out pipeline stage operator. But we need to explicitly specify the inclusion of other field in the $project stage.
db.collection.aggregate(
[
{ "$project": {
"tags": {
"$cond": [
{ "$eq": [
{ "$type": "$tags" },
"string"
]},
{ "$split": [ "$tags", " " ] },
"$tags"
]
}
}},
{ "$out": "collection" }
]
)
With mapReduce, we need to use the Array.prototype.split() to emit the array of substrings in our map function. We also need to filter our documents using the "query" option. From there we will need to iterate the "results" array and $set the new value for "tags" using bulk operations using the bulkWrite() method new in 3.2 or the now deprecated Bulk() if we are on 2.6 or 3.0 as shown here.
db.collection.mapReduce(
function() { emit(this._id, this.tags.split(" ")); },
function(key, value) {},
{
"out": { "inline": 1 },
"query": {
"tags.0": { "$exists": false },
"tags": { "$type": 2 }
}
}
)['results']
I would like to add a document if it does not exist and else add an element to one of it's sub-documents.
db.test.update(
{
name : 'Peter'
},
$setOnInsert : {
name : 'Peter',
visits: { 'en' : ['today'], 'us' : [] }
},
$push : {
visits.en : 'today'
},
{ upsert : true }
)
If Peter exists, add an element to its visists.en or visists.us arrays. Else, create a document for Peter. This document should have the format for visits which should contain the current element ('today').
My issue is that I have "have conflicting mods in update".
I.e. (afaik), I cannot write to two things in one query. Yet how can I solve this dilemma?
You could implement it without $setOnInsert operator.
db.test.update(
{
name : 'Peter'
},
{
$push : {
"visits.en" : 'today'
}
},
{ upsert : true }
)
If Peter exists, element 'today' will be added to its visits.en array. Else, will be created a document for Peter, with visits object, that will be contain array en with 'today' element.
And I think, that error occured because of you using same property (visits) in two operations ($setOnInsert and $push).
You can still use $setOnInsert but when $setOnInsert and $push doesn't updates in the same fields as mentioned before.
N.b: We use $addToSet if you don't want a duplicated values in your Array
db.test.update(
{
name : 'Peter'
},
{
$setOnInsert: {name : 'Peter'},
$addToSet: {"visits.en": 'today'} // or $push
},
{upsert: true})
I have a document with an array field, similar to this:
{
"_id" : "....",
"Statuses" : [
{ "Type" : 1, "Timestamp" : ISODate(...) },
{ "Type" : 2, "Timestamp" : ISODate(...) },
//Etc. etc.
]
}
How can I update a specific Status item's Timestamp, by specifying its Type value?
From mongodb shell you can do this by
db.your_collection.update(
{ _id: ObjectId("your_objectid"), "Statuses.Type": 1 },
{ $set: { "Statuses.$.Timestamp": "new timestamp" } }
)
so the c# equivalent
var query = Query.And(
Query.EQ("_id", "your_doc_id"),
Query.EQ("Statuses.Type", 1)
);
var result = your_collection.Update(
query,
Update.Set("Statuses.$.Timestamp", "new timestamp", UpdateFlags.Multi,SafeMode.True)
);
This will update the specific document, you can remove _id filter if you wanted to update the whole collection
Starting with MongoDB 3.6, the $[<identifier>] positional operator may be used. Unlike the $ positional operator — which updates at most one array element per document — the $[<identifier>] operator will update every matching array element. This is useful for scenarios where a given document may have multiple matching array elements that need to be updated.
db.yourCollection.update(
{ _id: "...." },
{ $set: {"Statuses.$[element].Timestamp": ISODate("2021-06-23T03:47:18.548Z")} },
{ arrayFilters: [{"element.Type": 1}] }
);
The arrayFilters option matches the array elements to update, and the $[element] is used within the $set update operator to indicate that only array elements that matched the arrayFilter should be updated.