You can use positional operator $ for this. Let us first create a collection with documents −
> db.subElementQueryingDemo.insertOne( ... { ... "ClientName":"Chris", ... "Status": [ { "isMarried": true }, { "isMarried": false } ] ... } ... ); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5ccf28c9dceb9a92e6aa1953") }
Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.subElementQueryingDemo.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5ccf28c9dceb9a92e6aa1953"), "ClientName" : "Chris", "Status" : [ { "isMarried" : true }, { "isMarried" : false } ] }
Here is how you can query sublement in MongoDB −
> db.subElementQueryingDemo.find({ "Status.isMarried": true }, {ClientName: 1, 'Status.$': 1}).pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5ccf28c9dceb9a92e6aa1953"), "ClientName" : "Chris", "Status" : [ { "isMarried" : true } ] }