You can use $slice operator to limit an array. Let us create a collection with documents. Following is the query
> db.limitAnArrayDemo.insertOne( ... { ... _id: 101, ... "PlayerName": "Bob", ... "PlayerDetails": {Age:23,isStudent:true}, ... "PlayerGameScores": [234,5767,58,67,78,90,1002,576,68,45,23,45,678,89,78 ] ... } ... ); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 101 }
Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method
> db.limitAnArrayDemo.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output
{ "_id" : 101, "PlayerName" : "Bob", "PlayerDetails" : { "Age" : 23, "isStudent" : true }, "PlayerGameScores" : [ 234, 5767, 58, 67, 78, 90, 1002, 576, 68, 45, 23, 45, 678, 89, 78 ] }
Following is the query to limit an array sub-element in MongoDB. The below query will display only 10 elements from the last
> db.limitAnArrayDemo.find({}, {PlayerName:1, PlayerDetails: 1, PlayerGameScores:{$slice: -10}}).pretty();
Following is the output displaying 10 PlayerGameScores
{ "_id" : 101, "PlayerName" : "Bob", "PlayerDetails" : { "Age" : 23, "isStudent" : true }, "PlayerGameScores" : [ 90, 1002, 576, 68, 45, 23, 45, 678, 89, 78 ] }