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MongoDB/Mongoose: AddToSet an array into an array field, but also addToSet a nested array field value if the parent object already exists

I am building an education application and I am trying to add/update a field which is an array of objects with addToSet from a javascript array, and if the object already exists (matched with objectId) I want to update the already existing object's array (addToSet) and change another field of that same object.
My model looks like this (simplified):
const course = new Schema(
{
events: [
{
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'event'
}
],
students: [
{
user: {
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'user'
},
status: {
type: String,
enum: ['notBooked', 'booked', 'attended', 'completed']
},
events: [
{
type: Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: 'event'
}
]
}
],
});
And ideally I would like to use an updateOne query to both addToSet to the course's list of events, while also updating the students list.
Currently I am using this code to accomplish my updates by first finding the course and then using javascript to update it, which works:
const studentsToAdd = this.attendees.map((attendee) => ({
user: attendee._id,
status: 'booked',
events: [this._id]
}));
const studentIds = studentsToAdd.map((student) => student.user);
const course = await courseModel.findById(this.course);
console.log(studentIds);
course.events.push(this._id);
course.students.forEach((student) => {
if (studentIds.some((s) => s.equals(student.user))) {
student.events.push(this._id);
student.status = 'booked';
studentsToAdd.splice(studentsToAdd.indexOf(studentsToAdd.find((s) => s.user.equals(student.user))), 1);
}
});
course.students.push(...studentsToAdd);
course.save();
However I am curious if it is possible to solve this using a single updateOne on the courseModel schema.
This is part of a mongoose middleware function, and "this" references an event object, which has its own _id, attendees of the event, and the course ID (named course).
The goal is to add the student object part of studentsToAdd to the students array of the course IF the student does not exist (signified by user being a reference by objectId), and if the student already exists then I want to add the eventId (this._id) to the events array for that particular student and set status for that student to "booked".
Is this possible? I have tried many iterations using $cond, $elemmatch, "students.$[]" and so forth but I am quite new to mongodb and am unsure how to go about this.

Is there a way to update an object in an array of a document by query in Mongoose?

I have got a data structure:
{
field: 1,
field: 3,
field: [
{ _id: xxx , subfield: 1 },
{ _id: xxx , subfield: 1 },
]
}
I need to update a certain element in the array.
So far I can only do that by pulling out old object and pushing in a new one, but it changes the file order.
My implementation:
const product = await ProductModel.findOne({ _id: productID });
const price = product.prices.find( (price: any) => price._id == id );
if(!price) {
throw {
type: 'ProductPriceError',
code: 404,
message: `Coundn't find price with provided ID: ${id}`,
success: false,
}
}
product.prices.pull({ _id: id })
product.prices.push(Object.assign(price, payload))
await product.save()
and I wonder if there is any atomic way to implement that. Because this approach doesn't seem to be secured.

Yes, you can update a particular object in the array if you can find it.
Have a look at the positional '$' operator here.
Your current implementation using mongoose will then be somewhat like this:
await ProductModel.updateOne(
{ _id: productID, 'prices._id': id },//Finding Product with the particular price
{ $set: { 'prices.$.subField': subFieldValue } },
);
Notice the '$' symbol in prices.$.subField. MongoDB is smart enough to only update the element at the index which was found by the query.

Mongoose: Count array elements

I have the following Schema with a array of ObjectIds:
const userSchema = new Schema({
...
article: [{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
}],
...
},
I will count the array elements in the example above the result should be 10.
I have tried the following but this doesn't worked for me. The req.query.id is the _id from the user and will filter the specific user with the matching article array.
const userData = User.aggregate(
[
{
$match: {_id: id}
},
{
$project: {article: {$size: '$article'}}
},
]
)
console.log(res.json(userData));
The console.log(article.length) give me currently 0. How can I do this? Is the aggregate function the right choice or is a other way better to count elements of a array?

Not sure why to use aggregate when array of ids is already with user object.
Define articles field as reference:
const {Schema} = mongoose.Schema;
const {Types} = Schema;
const userSchema = new Schema({
...
article: {
type: [Types.ObjectId],
ref: 'Article',
index: true,
},
...
});
// add virtual if You want
userSchema.virtual('articleCount').get(function () {
return this.article.length;
});
and get them using populate:
const user = await User.findById(req.query.id).populate('articles');
console.log(user.article.length);
or simply have array of ids:
const user = await User.findById(req.query.id);
console.log(user.article.length);
make use of virtual field:
const user = await User.findById(req.query.id);
console.log(user.articleCount);
P.S. I use aggregate when I need to do complex post filter logic which in fact is aggregation. Think about it like You have resultset, but You want process resultset on db side to have more specific information which would be ineffective if You would do queries to db inside loop. Like if I need to get users which added specific article by specific day and partition them by hour.

Mongoose: find document by values inside an array field

I've got a chat schema that looks like that:
var chatSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
users: [{
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
required: true
}]
});
It contains array of user IDs.
Now I want to find one chat document that contains an array of two user IDs.
At the beginning I tried to do this:
Chat.findOne({ users: { $in: [req.user_id, receiver._id] }})
.then(chat => { })
But it seems that every time it gives me the chat that contains at least one of the IDs I mentioned in the query.
So I've tried to change it to this but with no luck:
Chat.findOne()
.where({ users: { $in: [req.user_id] }})
.where({ users: { $in: [receiver._id] }})
.then(chat => { })
I need to find the chat that contains both of the user ID's inside the users array otherwise I expect for a null value.
How can I achieve this goal?
Thanks!

This is the way $in works - returns the document when at least one value matches. You should use $all instead:
Chat.findOne({ users: { $all: [req.user_id, receiver._id] }})

How to link records with lawnchair js

I am using Lawnchair JS from http://brian.io/lawnchair/ in my Phonegap Application to manage my database records. I am new to document stores but experienced with traditional relational databases. How should I go if I wanted to reference one record on another record. For example: I have multiple records for food ingredients and I have multiple records for recipes, in a recipes JSON, is there a way to reference an ingredient record?

To achieve what you want with a json document store like lawnchair, you just need to store the key name of the referenced document inside your document.
For instance you will have those food ingredient documents:
{key:'fi_1', name: 'rice', id: 1}
{key:'fi_2', name: 'corn', id: 2}
and those recipe documents:
{key:'r_332', ingredients: ['fi_1', 'fi_54'], name: 'risotto', id: 332}
{key:'r_333', ingredient: ['fi_12'], name:'cookie', id: 333}
you could store the list of all your recipes inside one document:
{key:'cookbook', recipes: ['r_1', 'r_2', .... 'r_332', 'r_333', .... ] }
you can then retrieve the cookbook document:
store.get('cookbook', function(data) {
var recipes = data.recipes;
// do something with the list of all recipes
});
and look for a recipe to retrieve its ingredients:
store.get('r_332', function(data) {
var ingredients = data.ingredients;
for (ingredient_key in ingredients) {
store.get(ingredient_key, function(ingredient_data) {
var name = ingredient_data.name;
var id = ingredient_data.id;
// do something with each ingredient
alert('ingredient: ' + name + ' - id: ' + id);
}
}
});
In the lists above, instead of storing the full key name of the referenced documents you could just store their ids as you are supposed to know their type and how to re-create the keyname from that (food ingredient : 'fi_' prefix followed by id, recipe : 'r_' followed by id..).