I have the following structure in my documents:
{
"_id" : 1,
"item" : {
"name" : "abc",
"price" : 10,
"quantity" : 2,
"date" : ISODate("2014-03-01T08:00:00Z")
}
}
And I want to transform each document on this:
{
"_id" : 1,
"name" : "abc",
"price" : 10,
"quantity" : 2,
"date" : ISODate("2014-03-01T08:00:00Z")
}
In other words remove the embedded document but not the details!
Thanks!
You can use the aggregation
especially the $project
operator for that. The $out
operator let you write the result in another collection.
db.collection.aggregate([
{ "$project": {
"_id": "$_id",
"name": "$item.name",
"price": "$item.price",
"quantity": "$item.quantity",
"date": "$item.date"}
},
{ "$out": "collection"}
])
You documents now look like this:
{
"_id" : 1,
"name" : "abc",
"price" : 10,
"quantity" : 2,
"date" : ISODate("2014-03-01T08:00:00Z")
}
You can also overwrite the pre-existing collection by giving the new results collection the same name but this.