I have the following structure in my document:
{
_id : ObjectId("43jh4j343j4j"),
array : [
{
_arrayId : ObjectId("dsd87dsa9d87s9d7"),
someField : "something",
someField2 : "something2"
},
{
_arrayId : ObjectId("sds9a0d9da0d9sa0"),
someField : "somethingElse",
someField2 : "somethingElse2"
}
]
}
I want to update someField and someField2 but only for one of the items in the array, the one that matches _arrayId (e.g. _arrayId : ObjectId("dsd87dsa9d87s9d7")
; and only for this document (e.g. _id : ObjectId("43jh4j343j4j")
) and no other.
The arrayIds are not unique to the document that's why I need it to be for a specific document. I could use the $ positional operator
if I wanted to update that value within the array for every document it exists in, but that's not what I want.
I am trying to accomplish this in java but a command line solution would work as well.
You could still use $ positional
operator to accomplish this. But you need to specify the objectid of the parent doc along with the _arrayid filter. The below command line query works fine
db.so.update({_id:ObjectId("4e719eb07f1d878c5cf7333c"),
"array._arrayId":ObjectId("dsd87dsa9d87s9d7")},
{$set:{"array.$.someField":"updated"}})
Here is RameshVel's solution translated to java:
DB db = conn.getDB( "yourDB" );
DBCollection coll = db.getCollection( "yourCollection" );
ObjectId _id = new ObjectId("4e71b07ff391f2b283be2f95");
ObjectId arrayId = new ObjectId("4e639a918dca838d4575979c");
BasicDBObject query = new BasicDBObject();
query.put("_id", _id);
query.put("array._arrayId", arrayId);
BasicDBObject data = new BasicDBObject();
data.put("array.$.someField", "updated");
BasicDBObject command = new BasicDBObject();
command.put("$set", data);
coll.update(query, command);
...and this is how to do it with mongo-driver version >= 3.1 (mine is 3.2.2):
final MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient(new MongoClientURI(mongoURIString));
final MongoDatabase blogDatabase = mongoClient.getDatabase("yourDB");
MongoCollection<Document> postsCollection = blogDatabase.getCollection("yourCollection");
ObjectId _id = new ObjectId("4e71b07ff391f2b283be2f95");
ObjectId arrayId = new ObjectId("4e639a918dca838d4575979c");
Bson filter = Filters.and(Filters.eq( "_id", id ), Filters.eq("array._arrayId", arrayId));
Bson setUpdate = Updates.set("array.$.someField", "updated");
postsCollection.updateOne(postFilter, setUpdate);