Syntax error MongoDB query to access an object in an array

MongoDB query to access an object in an array



To access an object in an array, use dot notation. Let us create a collection with documents −

> db.demo299.insertOne(
...   {
...      "id":100,
...      "Name":"Robert",
...      "details":[
...         {
...            "SubjectName":["C++","Python"]
...         },
...         {
...            "SubjectName":["Spring","Hibernate"]
...         }
...      ]
...   }
...);
{
   "acknowledged" : true,
   "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e4d685a5d93261e4bc9ea4b")
}
>
>
> db.demo299.insertOne(
...   {
...      "id":101,
...      "Name":"Adam",
...      "details":[
...         {
...            "SubjectName":["Python","JSP"]
...         },
...         {
...            "SubjectName":["Servlet","Operating System"]
...         }
...      ]
...   }
...);
{
   "acknowledged" : true,
   "insertedId" : ObjectId("5e4d685b5d93261e4bc9ea4c")
}

Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −

> db.demo299.find();

This will produce the following output −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5e4d685a5d93261e4bc9ea4b"), "id" : 100, "Name" : "Robert", "details" : [
      { "SubjectName" : [ "C++", "Python" ] },
      { "SubjectName" : [ "Spring", "Hibernate" ] }
   ]
}
{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5e4d685b5d93261e4bc9ea4c"), "id" : 101, "Name" : "Adam", "details" : [
      { "SubjectName" : [ "Python", "JSP" ] }, { "SubjectName" : [ "Servlet", "Operating System" ] }
   ]
}

Following is the query to access an object in an array −

> db.demo299.find({"details.SubjectName":"Servlet"});

This will produce the following output −

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("5e4d685b5d93261e4bc9ea4c"), "id" : 101, "Name" : "Adam", "details" : [
      { "SubjectName" : [ "Python", "JSP" ] }, { "SubjectName" : [ "Servlet", "Operating System" ] }
   ] 
}
Updated on: 2020-04-01T07:23:32+05:30

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