To select two fields and return a sorted array with distinct values, use aggregate framework along with $setUnion operator. Let us first create a collection with documents −
> db.sortedArrayWithDistinctDemo.insertOne( ... { value1: 4, value2: 5} ... ); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cc690b99cb58ca2b005e666") } > db.sortedArrayWithDistinctDemo.insertOne( ... {value1: 5, value2: 6} ... ); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cc690b99cb58ca2b005e667") } > db.sortedArrayWithDistinctDemo.insertOne( ... {value1: 7, value2: 4} ... ); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5cc690b99cb58ca2b005e668") }
Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.sortedArrayWithDistinctDemo.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5cc690b99cb58ca2b005e666"), "value1" : 4, "value2" : 5 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5cc690b99cb58ca2b005e667"), "value1" : 5, "value2" : 6 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5cc690b99cb58ca2b005e668"), "value1" : 7, "value2" : 4 }
Following is the query to select two fields and return a sorted array with their distinct values. The fields here are “value1” and “value2” −
> db.sortedArrayWithDistinctDemo.aggregate( ... [ ... { "$group": { ... "_id": null, ... "value1": { "$push": "$value1" }, ... "value2": { "$push": "$value2" } ... }}, ... { "$project": { ... "_id": 0, ... "bothValues": { "$setUnion": [ "$value1", "$value2" ] } ... }} ... ] ... );
This will produce the following output. Now the sorted array is returned with distinct values −
{ "bothValues" : [ 4, 5, 6, 7 ] }