MongoDB query and update single object inside nested array by ID?

Question

From this example document:

...
{
    "_id": ObjectId("5a934e000102030405000000"),
    "guild_id": 1234,
    "members": [
        ...
        {
            "member_id": 002,
            "name": "John Doe"
        },
        ...
    ]
}
...

I want to fetch an individual member object from the nested array so that I will be returned:

{"member_id": 002, "name": "John Doe"}

with which I can read in the member info.

How might one query by "member_id" like with 002 and get the desired result above? And with this, how would you also update the member "name" as well? Preferably in Python syntax, please, but any is fine as well.

Answer 1

aggregate

db.collection.aggregate([
  {
    "$match": {
      "members.member_id": "001"
    }
  },
  {
    "$unwind": "$members"
  },
  {
    "$match": {
      "members.member_id": "001"
    }
  },
  {
    "$replaceWith": "$members"
  }
])

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update

db.collection.update({
  "members.member_id": "001"
},
{
  "$set": {
    "members.$.name": "John"
  }
},
{
  "multi": false,
  "upsert": false
})

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python(fastapi) Edit this by yourself

from fastapi import FastAPI, Request, status, HTTPException
from fastapi.responses import HTMLResponse
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
from fastapi.templating import Jinja2Templates
from pymongo import MongoClient
from fastapi.encoders import jsonable_encoder
from fastapi.exceptions import RequestValidationError
from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse
from pydantic import BaseModel

CONNECTION_STRING = "mongodb://localhost"
try:
    client = MongoClient(CONNECTION_STRING, serverSelectionTimeoutMS=3000)
    print('Connected ! Mongo version is', client.server_info()['version'])
except:
    print('Disconnected !')

app = FastAPI()
app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory="static"), name="static")
@app.exception_handler(RequestValidationError)
async def validation_exception_handler(request: Request, exc: RequestValidationError):
    return JSONResponse(
        status_code=status.HTTP_422_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY,
        content=jsonable_encoder({"detail": exc.errors(), "body": exc.body}),
    )

templates = Jinja2Templates(directory="static")

@app.get("/")
async def root():
    db = get_database()
    c = db['key'].find({"_id":2})
    if (c):
        return {"message": c[0]}
    return {"message": c}

@app.get("/get/{id}")
async def root(id: int):
    db = get_database()
    c = list(db['key'].find({"_id":id}))
    return {"message": c}

def get_database():
    return client['test']
    
# This is added so that many files can reuse the function get_database()
if __name__ == "__main__":    
    print('__main__ !')
    # Get the database
    dbname = get_database()