Syntax error How to pull all elements from an array in MongoDB without any condition?

How to pull all elements from an array in MongoDB without any condition?



You can use $set operator for this. Let us first create a collection with documents −

> db.pullAllElementDemo.insertOne(
...    {
...       "StudentId":101,
...       "StudentDetails" : [
...          {
...
...             "StudentName": "Carol",
...             "StudentAge":21,
...             "StudentCountryName":"US"
...          },
...          {
...             "StudentName": "Chris",
...             "StudentAge":24,
...             "StudentCountryName":"AUS"
...          }
...       ]
...    }
... );
{
   "acknowledged" : true,
   "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ccdd9c8685b30d09a7111e4")
}
> db.pullAllElementDemo.insertOne(
...    {
...       "StudentId":102,
...       "StudentDetails" : [
...          {
...
...             "StudentName": "Robert",
...             "StudentAge":27,
...             "StudentCountryName":"UK"
...          },
...          {
...             "StudentName": "David",
...             "StudentAge":23,
...             "StudentCountryName":"US"
...          }
...       ]
...    }
... );
{
   "acknowledged" : true,
   "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ccdd9f7685b30d09a7111e5")
}

Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −

> db.pullAllElementDemo.find().pretty();

This will produce the following output −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5ccdd9c8685b30d09a7111e4"),
   "StudentId" : 101,
   "StudentDetails" : [
      {
         "StudentName" : "Carol",
         "StudentAge" : 21,
         "StudentCountryName" : "US"
      },
      {
         "StudentName" : "Chris",
         "StudentAge" : 24,
         "StudentCountryName" : "AUS"
      }
   ]
}
{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5ccdd9f7685b30d09a7111e5"),
   "StudentId" : 102,
   "StudentDetails" : [
      {
         "StudentName" : "Robert",
         "StudentAge" : 27,
         "StudentCountryName" : "UK"
      },
      {
         "StudentName" : "David",
         "StudentAge" : 23,
         "StudentCountryName" : "US"
      }
   ]
}

Following is the query to pull all elements from array in MongoDB without any condition. Here, we have removed StudentDetails with StudentId 102 using $set −

> db.pullAllElementDemo.update( {StudentId:102}, { "$set": { "StudentDetails": [] }} );
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })

Let is display all documents from the above collection to check those specific elements from an array have been pulled out or not −

> db.pullAllElementDemo.find().pretty();

This will produce the following output −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5ccdd9c8685b30d09a7111e4"),
   "StudentId" : 101,
   "StudentDetails" : [
      {
         "StudentName" : "Carol",
         "StudentAge" : 21,
         "StudentCountryName" : "US"
      },
      {
         "StudentName" : "Chris",
         "StudentAge" : 24,
         "StudentCountryName" : "AUS"
      }
   ]
}
{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5ccdd9f7685b30d09a7111e5"),
   "StudentId" : 102,
   "StudentDetails" : [ ]
}
Updated on: 2019-07-30T22:30:26+05:30

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