say I have a mongo DB collection with records as follows:
{
email: "[email protected]",
plans: [
{planName: "plan1", dataValue = 100},
{planName: "plan2", dataValue = 50}
]
},
{
email: "[email protected]",
plans: [
{planName: "plan3", dataValue = 25},
{planName: "plan4", dataValue = 12.5}
]
}
and I want to query such that only the dataValue returns where the email is "[email protected]" and the planName is "plan1". How would I approach this?
You can accomplish this using the Aggregation Pipeline.
The pipeline may look like this:
db.collection.aggregate([
{ $match: { "email" :"[email protected]", "plans.planName": "plan1" }},
{ $unwind: "$plans" },
{ $match: { "plans.planName": "plan1" }},
{ $project: { "_id": 0, "dataValue": "$plans.dataValue" }}
])
The first $match stage will retrieve documents where the email field is equal to [email protected] and any of the elements in the plans array has a planName equal to plan1.
The second $unwind stage will output one document per element in the plans array. The plans field will now be an object containing a single plan object.
In the third $match stage, the unwound documents are further matched against to only include documents with a plans.planName of plan1. Finally, the $project stage excludes the _id field and projects a single dataValue field with a value of plans.dataValue.
Note that with this approach, if the email field is not unique you may have multiple documents consist with just a dataValue field.
