To extract the particular element in MongoDB, you can use $elemMatch operator. Let us first create a collection with documents −
> db.particularElementDemo.insertOne( { "GroupId" :"Group-1", "UserDetails" : [ { "UserName" : "John", "UserOtherDetails" : [ { "UserEmailId" : "[email protected]", "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Chris" } ] }, { "UserEmailId" : "[email protected]", "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Robert" } ] } ] } ] } ); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 100 } > db.particularElementDemo.find().pretty(); { "_id" : 100, "GroupId" : "Group-1", "UserDetails" : [ { "UserName" : "John", "UserOtherDetails" : [ { "UserEmailId" : "[email protected]", "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Chris" } ] }, { "UserEmailId" : "[email protected]", "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Robert" } ] } ] } ] }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.particularElementDemo.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : 100, "GroupId" : "Group-1", "UserDetails" : [ { "UserName" : "John", "UserOtherDetails" : [ { "UserEmailId" : "[email protected]", "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Chris" } ] }, { "UserEmailId" : "[email protected]", "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Robert" } ] } ] } ] }
Following is the query to extract particular element in MongoDB in nested arrays −
> db.particularElementDemo.find( { 'UserDetails':{ $elemMatch:{ 'UserOtherDetails':{ $elemMatch:{ 'UserFriendName':{ $elemMatch: {"Name" : "Robert" } } } } } } },{"UserDetails.UserOtherDetails.UserFriendName.Name":1} );
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : 100, "UserDetails" : [ { "UserOtherDetails" : [ { "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Chris" } ] }, { "UserFriendName" : [ { "Name" : "Robert" } ] } ] } ] }