Node.js/MongoDB - querying dates

Question

I'm having a bit of an issue understanding how to query dates; I think the issue might be with how my data is structured. Here is a sample document on my database.

{

    "phone_num": 12553,
    "facilities": [
        "flat-screen",
        "parking"
    ],
    "surroundings": [
        "ping-pong",
        "pool"
    ],
    "rooms": [
        {
            "room_name": "Standard Suite",
            "capacity": 2,
            "bed_num": 1,
            "price": 50,
            "floor": 1,
            "reservations": [
                {
                    "checkIn": {
                        "$date": "2019-01-10T23:23:50.000Z"
                    },
                    "checkOut": {
                        "$date": "2019-01-20T23:23:50.000Z"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

I'm trying to query the dates to see check if a specific room is available at a certain date-range but no matter what I do I can't seem to get a proper result, either my query 404's or returns empty array.

I really tried everything, right now for simplicity I'm just trying to get the query to work with checkIn so I can figure out what I'm doing wrong. I tried 100 variants of the code below but I couldn't get it to work at all.

  .find({"rooms": { "reservations": {   "checkIn" : {"$gte": { "$date": "2019-01-09T00:00:00.000Z"}}}}})

Am I misunderstanding how the .find method works or is something wrong with how I'm storing my dates? (I keep seeing people mentioning ISODates but not too sure what that is or how to implement).

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think the query you posted is not correct. For example, if you want to query for the rooms with the checkin times in a certain range then the query should be like this -

.find({"rooms.reservations.checkout":{$gte:new Date("2019-01-06T13:11:50+06:00"), $lt:new Date("2019-01-06T14:12:50+06:00")}})

Now you can do the same with the checkout time to get the proper filtering to find the rooms available within a date range.

A word of advice though, the way you've designed your collection is not sustainable in the long run. For example, the date query you're trying to run will give you the correct documents, but not the rooms inside each document that satisfy your date range. You'll have to do it yourself on the server side (assuming you're not using aggregation). This will block your server from handling other pending requests which is not desirable. I suggest you break the collection down and have rooms and reservations in separate collections for easier querying.

Answer 2

Recently I was working on date query. First of all we need to understand how we store date into the mongodb database. Say I have stored data using UTC time format like 2020-07-21T09:45:06.567Z.

and my json structure is

[
{
    "dateOut": "2020-07-21T09:45:06.567Z",
    "_id": "5f1416378210c50bddd093b9",
    "customer": {
        "isGold": true,
        "_id": "5f0c1e0d1688c60b95360565",
        "name": "pavel_1",
        "phone": 123456789
    },
    "movie": {
        "_id": "5f0e15412065a90fac22309a",
        "title": "hello world",
        "dailyRentalRate": 20
    }
}
]

and I want to perform a query so that I can get all data only for this( 2020-07-21) date. So how can we perform that?. Now we need to understand the basic.

 let result = await Rental.find({
    dateOut: {
        $lt:''+new Date('2020-07-22').toISOString(),
        $gt:''+new Date('2020-07-21').toISOString()
    }
})

We need to find 21 date's data so our query will be greater than 21 and less than 22 cause 2020-07-21T00:45:06.567Z , 2020-07-21T01:45:06.567Z .. ... .. this times are greater than 21 but less than 22.

Answer 3

var mydate1 = new Date();

var mydate1 = new Date().getTime();

ObjectId.getTimestamp()

Returns the timestamp portion of the ObjectId() as a Date.

Example

The following example calls the getTimestamp() method on an ObjectId():

ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e").getTimestamp()

This will return the following output:

ISODate("2012-10-15T21:26:17Z")

Answer 4

If your using timestamps data to query. EG : "createdAt" : "2021-07-12T16:06:34.949Z"

const start  = req.params.id; //2021-07-12
const data = await Model.find({
            "createdAt": {
              '$gte': `${start}T00:00:00.000Z`,
              '$lt': `${start}T23:59:59.999Z`
            }
          });
console.log(data);

it will show the data of particular date .i.,e in this case. "2021-07-12"