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Evgeny Ivanov
Evgeny Ivanov

Reputation: 534

Updating an object property in a nested collection with another property of this object in MongoDB with c# driver

I need to update property in nested collection. All examples describes about setting concrete value, but not about value from another field.

MongoDB version: 4.2

C# driver version: 2.10.4

Product example:

    {
     _id: "1",
     Title: "Some title",
     Price: 20,
     OriginalPrice: 10,
     ... other props ...
     Variants: 
      [
        {
           Price: 21,
           OriginalPrice: 11
           ... other props ...
        },
        {
           Price: 22,
           OriginalPrice: 13
           ... other props ...
        },
      ] 
    }

I know how to update Price

var pipeline = PipelineDefinition<Product, Product>.Create("{'$set': {'Price': '$OriginalPrice'}}");
productCollection.UpdateMany(FilterDefinition<Product>.Empty, Builders<Product>.Update.Pipeline(pipeline));

But how i can update Variants.Price as Variants.OriginalPrice? Trying

var pipeline = PipelineDefinition<Product, Product>.Create("{'$set': {'Price': '$OriginalPrice', 'Variants.$[].Price': '$Variants.$[].OriginalPrice'}}");
productCollection.UpdateMany(FilterDefinition<Product>.Empty, Builders<Product>.Update.Pipeline(pipeline));

but an error occured.

Upd 1: Variant contains other properties.

@Mickl's answer is the solution, but

Is overwriting the entire nested collection the most optimal way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 604

Answers (1)

mickl
mickl

Reputation: 49985

The right handside of your update expression needs to be a MongoDB aggregate expression1 and currently you're using the regular "update" syntax. Based on the docs:

Specify the name of each field to add and set its value to an aggregation expression. For more information on expressions, see Expressions

The $map operator can be used to achieve what you want:

var set = @"{
         $set:
            {
                Variants:
                {
                    $map:
                    {
                        input: '$Variants',
                            in: { $mergeObjects: [ '$$this', { Price: '$$this.OriginalPrice' } ] }
                    }
                }
            }
        }";

var pipeline = PipelineDefinition<Product, Product>.Create(set);

var res = productCollection.UpdateMany(FilterDefinition<Product>.Empty, Builders<Product>.Update.Pipeline(pipeline));

Upvotes: 1

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