[javascript] How to search in array of object in mongodb

Suppose the mongodb document(table) 'users' is

{
    _id: 1,
    name: {
        first: 'John',
        last: 'Backus'
    },
    birth: new Date('Dec 03, 1924'),
    death: new Date('Mar 17, 2007'),
    contribs: ['Fortran', 'ALGOL', 'Backus-Naur Form', 'FP'],
    awards: [
        {
            award: 'National Medal',
            year: 1975,
            by: 'NSF'
        },
        {
            award: 'Turing Award',
            year: 1977,
            by: 'ACM'
        }
    ]
}
// ...and other object(person)s

I want to find the person who has the award 'National Medal' and must be awarded in year 1975 There could be other persons who have this award in different years.

How can I find this person using award type and year. So I can get exact person.

You can do this in two ways:

1. ElementMatch - $elemMatch (as explained in above answers)

   db.users.find({ awards: { $elemMatch: {award:'Turing Award', year:1977} } })

2. Use $and with find

   db.getCollection('users').find({"$and":[{"awards.award":"Turing Award"},{"awards.year":1977}]})

as explained in above answers Also, to return only one field from the entire array you can use projection into find. and use $

db.getCollection("sizer").find(
  { awards: { $elemMatch: { award: "National Medal", year: 1975 } } },
  { "awards.$": 1, name: 1 }
);

will be reutrn

{
    _id: 1,
    name: {
        first: 'John',
        last: 'Backus'
    },
    awards: [
        {
            award: 'National Medal',
            year: 1975,
            by: 'NSF'
        }
    ]
}

Use $elemMatch to find the array of particular object

db.users.findOne({"_id": id},{awards: {$elemMatch: {award:'Turing Award', year:1977}}})