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James

Reputation: 7897

Add item to nested array of nested object using MongoDB C# Driver

I am trying to use the MongoDB C# Driver to add an item to a nested array inside of a BSON document. I have searched SO, but none of the examples I have found so far match what I am trying to do.

I have a top-level "Organizations" collection in Mongo. This contains multiple Organization objects with the following structure:

{
   "id":"Org1",
   "Name":"First Org",
   "Divisions":[
      {
         "id":"Div1",
         "Name":"First Division",
         "UsersInDivision":[
            "User1",
            "User2"
         ]
      }
   ]
}

I have the following POCO classes

public class Organization
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public IList<Division> Divisions { get; set; }
}

public class Division
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public IList<string> UsersInDivision { get; set; }
}

I would like to add the string "User3" to the UsersInDivision collection, of Division "Div1" or Organization "Org1". What is the optimal way to achieve this? I am trying to use the strongly typed versions of MongoDB data access classes where possible.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4410

Answers (1)

Disposer
Disposer

Reputation: 6371

There is no typed version query for do such a thing, you have to use string based query

var query = Query.And(Query.EQ("id", "Org1"), Query.EQ("Divisions.id", "Div1"));
collection.Update(query, Update.AddToSet("Divisions.$.UsersInDivision", "User3"));

The reason you cant use strongly typed version is $ operator.

There is no $ in current version of mongodb c# driver. check here

Upvotes: 5

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