Mongo $projection, can you flat a sub-document array?

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to "flatten" though projection a nested sub-document array so I could use it to sum its entries based on type.

My document looks like this:

 { "order_id":12345, "date":8/17/2019, "payment":{ status:1, transactions:[ {type: 1, amount:200}, {type: 2, amount:250}, {type: 3, amount:50}, {type: 4, amount:50}, ] } } I would like to see if you can "flatten" it to something like this using $project: { "order_id":12345, "date":8/17/2019, "status":1, "type": 1, "amount":200 }, { "order_id":12345, "date":8/17/2019, "status":1, "type": 2, "amount":250 }, { "order_id":12345, "date":8/17/2019, "status":1, "type": 4, "amount":50 }, { "order_id":12345, "date":8/17/2019, "status":1, "type": 4, "amount":50 } }

Primarily my goal is to aggregate all the amounts for transactions of type 1 & 3 and all the transactions with type 2 & 4.

Any help would be great.

Answer 1

The following query can get you the expected output:

db.check.aggregate([
    {
        $unwind:"$payment.transactions"
    },
    {
        $project:{
            "_id":0,
            "order_id":1,
            "date":1,
            "status":"$payment.status",
            "type":"$payment.transactions.type",
            "amount":"$payment.transactions.amount"
        }
    }
]).pretty()    

Output:

{
    "order_id" : 12345,
    "date" : "8/17/2019",
    "status" : 1,
    "type" : 1,
    "amount" : 200
}
{
    "order_id" : 12345,
    "date" : "8/17/2019",
    "status" : 1,
    "type" : 2,
    "amount" : 250
}
{
    "order_id" : 12345,
    "date" : "8/17/2019",
    "status" : 1,
    "type" : 3,
    "amount" : 50
}
{
    "order_id" : 12345,
    "date" : "8/17/2019",
    "status" : 1,
    "type" : 4,
    "amount" : 50
}