How do I rename fields when performing search/projection in MongoDB?

Question

Is it possible to rename the name of fields returned in a find query? I would like to use something like $rename, however I wouldn\'t like to change the documen

Answer 1

As we know, in general, $project stage takes the field names and specifies 1 or 0/true or false to include the fields in the output or not, we also can specify the value against a field instead of true or false to rename the field. Below is the syntax

    db.test_collection.aggregate([
        {$group: {
            _id: '$field_to_group',
            totalCount: {$sum: 1}
        }},
        {$project: {
            _id: false,
            renamed_field: '$_id',    // here assigning a value instead of 0 or 1 / true or false effectively renames the field.
            totalCount: true
        }}
    ])