Suppose I have a Mongo DB with only one collection data. In this collection, I have the following documents:
{ "type": "person", "value": { "id": 1, "name": "Person 1", "age": 10 } }, { "type": "person", "value": { "id": 2, "name": "Person 2", "age": 20 } }, { "type": "prescription", "value": { "drug": "Bromhexine", "patient": 2 } }, { "type": "prescription", "value": { "drug": "Aspirin", "patient": 1 } } With those records, I'd like to make a JOIN between documents with "type": person and "type": prescription on value.id = value.patient.
I've already tried an aggregation with the following stages:
{ "$match": { "type": "person" } }, { "$lookup": { "from": "data", "let": { "patient": "$value.id"}, "pipeline": [ { "$match": { "$expr": { "type": "prescription", "value.patient": "$$patient" } } } ], "as": "prescription" } } But it produces an error FieldPath field names may not contain '.'. Which I believe is due to the "let": { "patient": "$value.id"}, line. If instead I try double dollar signs ($$) (as seen here), the result is the error Use of undefined variable: value.
Any idea of how I can make this aggregation?