How to join query in mongodb?

Question

I have user document collection like this:

User {
   id:\"001\"
   name:\"John\",
   age:30,
   friends:[\"userId1\",\"userId2\",\"userId3\"....]
}


        

Answer 1

var p = db.sample1.find().limit(2) , 
    h = [];
for (var i = 0; i < p.length(); i++) 
{
  h.push(p[i]['name']);
}
db.sample2.find( { 'doc_name': { $in : h } } ); 

it works for me.

Answer 2

one kind of join a query in mongoDB, is ask at one collection for id that match , put ids in a list (idlist) , and do find using on other (or same) collection with $in : idlist

u = db.friends.find({"friends": ? }).toArray()
idlist= []
u.forEach(function(myDoc) { idlist.push(myDoc.id ); } )
db.friends.find({"id": {$in : idlist} } )

Answer 3

Only populate array friends.

User.findOne({ _id: "userId"})
.populate('friends')
.exec((err, user) => {
    //do something
});

Result is same like this:

{
    "_id" : "userId",
    "name" : "John",
    "age" : 30,
    "friends" : [
        { "_id" : "userId1", "name" : "Derek", "age" : 34 }
        { "_id" : "userId2", "name" : "Homer", "age" : 44 }
        { "_id" : "userId3", "name" : "Bobby", "age" : 12 }
    ]
}

Same this: Mongoose - using Populate on an array of ObjectId

Answer 4

You can do it in one go using mongo-join-query. Here is how it would look like:

const joinQuery = require("mongo-join-query");

joinQuery(
    mongoose.models.User,
    {
        find: {},
        populate: ["friends"],
        sort: { age: 1 },
    },
    (err, res) => (err ? console.log("Error:", err) : console.log("Success:", res.results))
);

The result will have your users ordered by age and all of the friends objects embedded.

How does it work?

Behind the scenes mongo-join-query will use your Mongoose schema to determine which models to join and will create an aggregation pipeline that will perform the join and the query.