I'm trying to implement a nested group query in mongodb and I'm getting stuck trying to add the outer group by. Given the below (simplified) data document:
{
"timestamp" : ISODate(),
"category" : "movies",
"term" : "my movie"
}
I'm trying to achieve a list of all categories and within the categories there should be the top number of terms. I would like my output something like this:
[
{ category: "movies",
terms: [ { term: "movie 1", total: 5000 }, { term: "movie 2", total: 200 } ... ]
},
{ category: "sports",
terms: [ { term: "football 1", total: 4000 }, { term: "tennis 2", total: 250 } ... ]
},
]
My 'inner group' is as shown below, and will get the top 5 for all categories:
db.collection.aggregate([
{ $match : { "timestamp": { $gt: ISODate("2014-08-27") } } },
{ $group : { _id : "$term", total : { $sum : 1 } } },
{ $sort : { total : -1 } },
{ $limit: 5 }
]);
// Outputs:
{ "_id" : "movie 1", "total" : 943 }
{ "_id" : "movie 2", "total" : 752 }
How would I go about implementing the 'outer group'?
Additionally sometimes the above aggregate]ion returns a null value (not all documents have a term value). How do I go about ignoring the null values?
thanks in advance