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Reputation:

How to return array of string with mongodb aggregation

I need to return array of string with mongodb aggregation. I did the following:

db.users.aggregate([{$group: {_id:"$emails.address"}}])

It return:

{ "_id" : [ "[email protected]" ] }
{ "_id" : [ "[email protected]" ] }
{ "_id" : [ "[email protected]" ] }

Is there a way to return array of string like this one:

["[email protected]","[email protected]","[email protected]"]

thank You very much anyone who taking your time for helping me..

EDIT

Adding data:

{
    "_id" : "ukn9MLo3hRYEpCCty",
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2015-10-24T03:52:11.960Z"),
    "emails" : [
        {
            "address" : "[email protected]",
            "verified" : false
        }
    ]
}
{
    "_id" : "5SXRXraariyhRQACe",
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2015-10-24T03:52:12.093Z"),
    "emails" : [
        {
            "address" : "[email protected]",
            "verified" : false
        }
    ]
}
{
    "_id" : "WMHWxeymY4ATWLXjz",
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2015-10-24T03:52:12.237Z"),
    "emails" : [
        {
            "address" : "[email protected]",
            "verified" : false
        }
    ]
}

Upvotes: 31

Views: 46628

Answers (2)

Dushyant Bangal
Dushyant Bangal

Reputation: 6403

What Blakes Seven has answered is right.

The .aggregate() method always returns Objects no matter what you do and that cannot change.

However, that does not mean you cannot put them in an array and return the array in an object.

I believe that mapping in array in the database itself would be more better, as your node server can still be available to other requests.

db.users.aggregate([
     { "$unwind": "$emails" },
     { "$group": { "_id": null, emails:{$push:"$emails.address"} } },
     { "$project":{emails:true,_id:false}}
 ])

This will return:

{ "emails" : [ "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ] }

Upvotes: 30

Blakes Seven
Blakes Seven

Reputation: 50406

The .aggregate() method always returns Objects no matter what you do and that cannot change.

For your purpose you are probably better off using .distinct() instead, which does just return an array of the distinct values:

db.users.distinct("emails.address");

Which is exactly your desired output:

["[email protected]","[email protected]","[email protected]"]

If you really want to use .aggregate() then the tranformation to just the values needs to happen "outside" of the expression in post processing. And you should also be using $unwind when dealing with arrays like this.

You can do this with JavaScript .map() for example:

db.users.aggregate([
    { "$unwind": "$emails" },
    { "$group": { "_id": "$emails.address" } }
]).map(function(el) { return el._id })

Which gives the same output, but the .map() does the transformation client side instead of on the server.

Upvotes: 42

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