How to replace string in all documents in Mongo

Question

I need to replace a string in certain documents. I have googled this code, but it unfortunately does not change anything. I am not sure about the syntax on the line bellow:<

Answer 1

MongoDB can do string search/replace via mapreduce. Yes, you need to have a very special data structure for it -- you can't have anything in the top keys but you need to store everything under a subdocument under value. Like this:

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("549dafb0a0d0ca4ed723e37f"),
    "value" : {
            "title" : "Top 'access denied' errors",
            "parent" : "system.admin_reports",
            "p" : "\u0001\u001a%"
    }
}

Once you have this neatly set up you can do:

$map = new \MongoCode("function () {
  this.value['p'] = this.value['p'].replace('$from', '$to');
  emit(this._id, this.value);
}");
$collection = $this->mongoCollection();
// This won't be called.
$reduce = new \MongoCode("function () { }");
$collection_name = $collection->getName();
$collection->db->command([
  'mapreduce' => $collection_name,
  'map' => $map,
  'reduce' => $reduce,
  'out' => ['merge' => $collection_name],
  'query' => $query,
  'sort' => ['_id' => 1],
]);