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Sending the result of a mongoDB view to another collection ( INSERT....SELECT from SQL )

I could create a big query, and turn it into a view. Let's call it DBA_VIEW.
db.DBA_VIEW.find()
I'm using noSQLbooster to interact with mongodb and I'm trying to insert the result of this view into another collection.
I don't want to "right click > export" because I need to do this via noSQLbooster itself.
I've seen some querie sthat can do the trick, but, as a SQL SERVER dba, I think I can't get the logic behind, let's say, this one below:
db.full_set.find({date:"20120105"}).forEach(function(doc){
db.subset.insert(doc);
});
how can I use such approach to do my taks?
I just need the result of that view from a collection, to be inserted in another collection, then after this we are going to export the data into a .json file or even a .TXT.

You can design the query in the following way so that the output is directly inserted in a new collection('subset' in this example) without iterating through the result set.
db.full_set.aggregate([
{
$match:{
"date":"20120105"
}
},
{
$out:"subset"
}
])
If 'full_set' has the following documents:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5d423675bd542251420b6b8e"),
"date" : "20130105",
"name" : "Mechanic1"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5d423675bd542251420b6b8f"),
"date" : "20120105",
"name" : "Mechanic2"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5d423675bd542251420b6b90"),
"date" : "20120105",
"name" : "Mechanic3"
}
With the above query, the 'subset' collection would be having the following documents:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5d423675bd542251420b6b8f"),
"date" : "20120105",
"name" : "Mechanic2"
}
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5d423675bd542251420b6b90"),
"date" : "20120105",
"name" : "Mechanic3"
}

fetch data in meteor based on sub element

I have issue regarding publishing collection.
I have model of each document in collection.
{
"_id" : "8SwmMoMHTREDNDQTN",
"persons" : [
{
"userId" : "29pr753gmyDxQZzo6",
"lastReadTime":""
},
{
"userId" : "gWKbYKiQsFzdCTwkz",
"lastReadTime":""
}
]
}
Now i want to publish document which persons.userId have current user id
Here is my publish code
Meteor.publish("chatRooms", function(){
return userData.find({persons:{$elemMatch:{userId:this.userId}}});
});
But is it is nothing
i had also try below code
Meteor.publish("chatRooms", function(){
return userData.find({"persons.userId":this.userId});
});
But also getting result data 0
How can i publish this way?

MongoDB aggregation: How to extract the field in the results

all!
I'm new to MongoDB aggregation, after aggregating, I finally get the result:
"result" : [
{
"_id" : "531d84734031c76f06b853f0"
},
{
"_id" : "5316739f4031c76f06b85399"
},
{
"_id" : "53171a7f4031c76f06b853e5"
},
{
"_id" : "531687024031c76f06b853db"
},
{
"_id" : "5321135cf5fcb31a051e911a"
},
{
"_id" : "5315b2564031c76f06b8538f"
}
],
"ok" : 1
The data is just what I'm looking for, but I just want to make it one step further, I hope my data will be displayed like this:
"result" : [
"531d84734031c76f06b853f0",
"5316739f4031c76f06b85399",
"53171a7f4031c76f06b853e5",
"531687024031c76f06b853db",
"5321135cf5fcb31a051e911a",
"5315b2564031c76f06b8538f"
],
"ok" : 1
Yes, I just want to get all the unique id in a plain string array, is there anything I could do? Any help would be appreciated!

All MongoDB queries produce "key/value" pairs in the result document. All MongoDB content is basically a BSON document in this form, which is just "translated" back to native code form by the driver to the language it is implemented in.
So the aggregation framework alone is never going to produce a bare array of just the values as you want. But you can always just transform the array of results, as after all it is only an array
var result = db.collection.aggregate(pipeline);
var response = result.result.map(function(x) { return x._id } );
Also note that the default behavior in the shell and a preferred option is that the aggregation result is actually returned as a cursor from MongoDB 2.6 and onwards. Since this is in list form rather than as a distinct document you would process differently:
var response = db.collection.aggregate(pipeline).map(function(x) {
return x._id;
})

how to push a dictionary to a nested array with mongodb?

i have data that looks like this in my database
> db.whocs_up.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("52ce212cb17120063b9e3869"), "project" : "asnclkdacd", "users" : [ ] }
and i tried to add to the 'users' array like thus:
> db.whocs_up.update({'users.user': 'usex', 'project' : 'asnclkdacd' },{ '$addToSet': { 'users': {'user':'userx', 'lastactivity' :2387843543}}},true)
but i get the following error:
Cannot apply $addToSet modifier to non-array
same thing happens with push operator, what im i doing wrong?
im on 2.4.8
i tried to follow this example from here:
MongoDB - Update objects in a document's array (nested updating)
db.bar.update( {user_id : 123456, "items.item_name" : {$ne : "my_item_two" }} ,
{$addToSet : {"items" : {'item_name' : "my_item_two" , 'price' : 1 }} } ,
false ,
true)
the python tag is because i was working with python when i ran into this, but it does nto work on the mongo shell as you can see
EDIT ============================== GOT IT TO WORK
apparently if i modify the update from
db.whocs_up.update({'users.user': 'usex', 'project' : 'asnclkdacd' },{ '$addToSet': { 'users': {'user':'userx', 'lastactivity' :2387843543}}},true)
to this:
db.whocs_up.update({'project' : 'asnclkdacd' },{ '$addToSet': { 'users': {'user':'userx', 'lastactivity' :2387843543}}},true)
it works, but can anyone explain why the two do not achieve the same thing, in my understanding they should have referenced the same document and hence done the same thing,
What does the addition of 'users.user': 'userx' change in the update? does it refer to some inner document in the array rather than the document as a whole?

This is a known bug in MongoDB (SERVER-3946). Currently, an update with $push/$addToSet with a query on the same field does not work as expected.
In the general case, there are a couple of workarounds:
Restructure your update operation to not have to query on a field that is also to be updated using $push/$addToSet (as you have done above).
Use the $all operator in the query, supplying a single-value array containing the lookup value. e.g. instead of this:
db.foo.update({ x : "a" }, { $addToSet : { x : "b" } }, true)
do this:
db.foo.update({ x : { $all : ["a"] } }, { $addToSet : { x : "b" } } , true)
In your specific case, I think you need to re-evaluate the operation you're trying to do. The update operation you have above will add a new array entry for each unique (user, lastactivity) pair, which is probably not what you want. I assume you want a unique entry for each user.
Consider changing your schema so that you have one document per user:
{
_id : "userx",
project : "myproj",
lastactivity : 123,
...
}
The update operation then becomes something like:
db.users.update({ _id : "userx" }, { $set : { lastactivity : 456 } })
All users in a given project may still be looked up efficiently by adding a secondary index on project.
This schema also avoids the unbounded document growth of the above schema, which is better for performance.

searching for nested elements in mongodb, using api nodejs

At this moment I have in Node.JS API written a function
Board.find({ users : req.user._id})
It will find all documents where is id of user inside of array users,
for example
So this function will find this document.
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f4b46f489dd236410d88a"),
"name" : "first",
"users" : [
ObjectId("5a1db9e8db97d318ac70715d")
]
}
What If I will change array of users in document for array objects id
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5a7f4b46f489dd236410d77c"),
"name" : "second",
"users" : [
{ _id : ObjectId("5a1db9e8db97d318ac70715d") }
]
}
How to find now this document in this situation, using only req.user._id which is saved inside object of users[]?
we can find it somehow now or not??

You just need to change it as : Board.find({ 'users._id' : req.user._id})

You could also use:
db.collection_name.find( { "user": { "_id" : req.user._id } } )