MongoDB (mongoose) concatenates instances of specific ObjectIDs in a collection
Assuming I have a schematic that looks something like this:
{
field: [{
subDoc: ObjectId,
...
}],
...
}
and I have a list of ObjectIds (user input), how would I get the count of these specific ObjectIds? For exmaple, if I have data like this:
[
{field: [ {subDoc: 123}, {subDoc: 234} ]},
{field: [ {subDoc: 234}, {subDoc: 345} ]},
{field: [ {subDoc: 123}, {subDoc: 345}, {subDoc: 456} ]}
]
and the list of user-given ids is 123, 234, 345
, I need to get a count of the given ids, so the result comes close to this:
{
123: 2,
234: 2,
345: 2
}
What would be the best way to do this?
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The aggregation framework itself, unless dynamically naming the keys as you presented as the suggested output, is probably really good. But you can probably just make a request like this:
db.collection.aggregate([
// Match documents that contain the elements
{ "$match": {
"field.subDoc": { "$in": [123,234,345] }
}},
// De-normalize the array field content
{ "$unwind": "$field" },
// Match just the elements you want
{ "$match": {
"field.subDoc": { "$in": [123,234,345] }
}},
// Count by the element as a key
{ "$group": {
"_id": "$field.subDoc",
"count": { "$sum": 1 }
}}
])
This gives you output like this:
{ "_id" : 345, "count" : 2 }
{ "_id" : 234, "count" : 2 }
{ "_id" : 123, "count" : 2 }
But if you really want to go crazy, you specify the "keys" you want as part of your request, so you can create a pipeline like this:
db.collection.aggregate([
{ "$match": {
"field.subDoc": { "$in": [123,234,345] }
}},
{ "$unwind": "$field" },
{ "$match": {
"field.subDoc": { "$in": [123,234,345] }
}},
{ "$group": {
"_id": "$field.subDoc",
"count": { "$sum": 1 }
}},
{ "$group": {
"_id": null,
"123": {
"$max": {
"$cond": [
{ "$eq": [ "$_id", 123 ] },
"$count",
0
]
}
},
"234": {
"$max": {
"$cond": [
{ "$eq": [ "$_id", 234 ] },
"$count",
0
]
}
},
"345": {
"$max": {
"$cond": [
{ "$eq": [ "$_id", 345 ] },
"$count",
0
]
}
}
}}
])
Which is a relatively straightforward thing, to build the last step of the code just by processing the argument list:
var list = [123,234,345];
var group2 = { "$group": { "_id": null } };
list.forEach(function(id) {
group2["$group"][id] = {
"$max": {
"$cond": [
{ "$eq": [ "$_id", id ] },
"$count",
0
]
}
};
});
And it is more or less like how you want it.
{
"_id" : null,
"123" : 2,
"234" : 2,
"345" : 2
}
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Not exactly what you are asking for, but it might give you an idea:
db.test.aggregate([
{
$unwind: '$field'
},
{
$group: {
_id: {
subDoc: '$field.subDoc'
},
count: {
$sum: 1
}
}
},
{
$project: {
subDoc: '$subDoc.subDoc',
count: '$count'
}
}
]);
Output:
{
"result": [
{
"_id": {
"subDoc": 456
},
"count": 1
},
{
"_id": {
"subDoc": 345
},
"count": 2
},
{
"_id": {
"subDoc": 234
},
"count": 2
},
{
"_id": {
"subDoc": 123
},
"count": 2
}
],
"ok": 1
}
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