I have a chats collection which given down below
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a44e6545818041cde24aac9"),
"messages" : [
{
"createdAt" : ISODate("2017-12-23T07:46:29.201Z"),
"message" : "Hii",
"userId" : "000000"
},
{
"createdAt" : ISODate("2017-12-23T12:46:29.201Z"),
"message" : "Bye gtg ttyl",
"userId" : "111111"
},
{
"createdAt" : ISODate("2017-12-24T07:46:29.201Z"),
"message" : "Bye Take Care",
"userId" : "000000"
}
],
"createdAt" : ISODate("2017-10-23T07:46:29.201Z"),
"users" : [
{
"facebookId" : "000000",
"unread" : 0
},
{
"facebookId" : "111111",
"unread" : 0
}
]
}
When I do this following query in nodejs
chats.aggregate( [ { $unwind : "$messages" },{ $unwind : "$users" } ])
I get an array which is something like this in which unwind opens my array something like this
[
{
"_id": "5a44e6545818041cde24aac9",
"messages": {
"createdAt": "2017-12-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"message": "Hii",
"userId": "000000"
},
"createdAt": "2017-10-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"users": {
"facebookId": "000000",
"unread": 0
}
},
{
"_id": "5a44e6545818041cde24aac9",
"messages": {
"createdAt": "2017-12-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"message": "Hii",
"userId": "000000"
},
"createdAt": "2017-10-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"users": {
"facebookId": "111111",
"unread": 0
},
}, //And so on.
]
But can I only get the objects after unwind where messages.userId !== users.facebookId
something like the following object directly from MongoDB when i fetch data
[
{
"_id": "5a44e6545818041cde24aac9",
"messages": {
"createdAt": "2017-12-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"message": "Hii",
"userId": "000000"
},
"createdAt": "2017-10-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"users": {
"facebookId": "111111",
"unread": 0
},
},{
"_id": "5a44e6545818041cde24aac9",
"messages": {
"createdAt": "2017-12-23T12:46:29.201Z",
"message": "Bye gtg ttyl",
"userId": "111111"
},
"createdAt": "2017-10-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"users": {
"facebookId": "000000",
"unread": 0
}
}, {
"_id": "5a44e6545818041cde24aac9",
"messages": {
"createdAt": "2017-12-24T07:46:29.201Z",
"message": "Bye Take Care",
"userId": "000000"
},
"createdAt": "2017-10-23T07:46:29.201Z",
"users": {
"facebookId": "111111",
"unread": 0
}
}
]
Try Below one
db.coll3.aggregate([{
$unwind: '$users'
}, {
$project: {
messages: 1,
users: 1,
'messages': {
$filter: {
input: '$messages',
as: 'item',
cond: {
$ne: ['$$item.userId', '$users.facebookId']
}
}
}
}
},{ $unwind : "$messages" }
])
This is in mongoshell. I noticed that number of zeros in your records aren't equal. Please make sure you are not confused with them even if above queries by @veeram and @Astro were giving you correct results, if you tried them