I have the following collection:
{
"invoice": {
"data": [{
"name": "VOUCHERNUMBER",
"value": "59302311"
}, {
"name": "VOUCHERDATE",
"value": "2020-02-20"
}
]
}
},
{
"invoice": {
"data": [{
"name": "VOUCHERNUMBER",
"value": "59112389"
}, {
"name": "VOUCHERDATE",
"value": "2020-02-20"
}
]
}
},
{
"invoice": {
"data": [{
"name": "VOUCHERNUMBER",
"value": "59302378"
}, {
"name": "VOUCHERDATE",
"value": "2020-02-11"
}
]
}
}
My task is to build a query that find all invoices which invoicenumbers includes "11" (or any other substring).
So I built the following statement:
{"invoice.data.name": "VOUCHERNUMBER", "invoice.data.value": {$regex : "11"} }
I'm expecting a result of the first two objects, but because of the second value in the third object, mongodb returns me all three objects. Then I tried
{$and : [{"invoice.data.name": "VOUCHERNUMBER"}, {"invoice.data.value": {$regex : "11"}}]}
with the same result ...
So I'm running out of ideas. Is there a solution to search for the string only in the value field where the corresponding "name" field contains "VOUCHERNUMBER"?
CodePudding user response:
You need $elemMatch
.
The $elemMatch operator matches documents that contain an array field with at least one element that matches all the specified query criteria.
db.collection.find({
"invoice.data": {
"$elemMatch": {
"name": "VOUCHERNUMBER",
"value": {
$regex: "11"
}
}
}
})