Retrieve only the queried element in an object array in MongoDB collection

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Suppose you have the following documents in my collection:

{  
   "_id":ObjectId("562e7c594c12942f08fe4192"),
   "shapes":[  
      {  
         "shape":"square",
         "color":"blue"
      },
      {  
         "shape":"circle",
         "color":"red"
      }
   ]
},
{  
   "_id":ObjectId("562e7c594c12942f08fe4193"),
   "shapes":[  
      {  
         "shape":"square",
         "color":"black"
      },
      {  
         "shape":"circle",
         "color":"green"
      }
   ]
}

Do query:

db.test.find({"shapes.color": "red"}, {"shapes.color": 1})

Or

db.test.find({shapes: {"$elemMatch": {color: "red"}}}, {"shapes.color": 1})

Returns matched document (Document 1), but always with ALL array items in shapes:

{ "shapes": 
  [
    {"shape": "square", "color": "blue"},
    {"shape": "circle", "color": "red"}
  ] 
}

However, I'd like to get the document (Document 1) only with the array that contains color=red:

{ "shapes": 
  [
    {"shape": "circle", "color": "red"}
  ] 
}

How can I do this?

aggregation-framework mongodb-query mongodb projection
15 Answers

Likewise you can find for the multiple

db.getCollection('localData').aggregate([
    // Get just the docs that contain a shapes element where color is 'red'
  {$match: {'shapes.color': {$in : ['red','yellow'] } }},
  {$project: {
     shapes: {$filter: {
        input: '$shapes',
        as: 'shape',
        cond: {$in: ['$$shape.color', ['red', 'yellow']]}
     }}
  }}
])
user_27142290 
db.test.find( {"shapes.color": "red"}, {_id: 0})
user_104132450

Use aggregation function and $project to get specific object field in document

db.getCollection('geolocations').aggregate([ { $project : { geolocation : 1} } ])

result:

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5e3ee15968879c0d5942464b"),
    "geolocation" : [ 
        {
            "_id" : ObjectId("5e3ee3ee68879c0d5942465e"),
            "latitude" : 12.9718313,
            "longitude" : 77.593551,
            "country" : "India",
            "city" : "Chennai",
            "zipcode" : "560001",
            "streetName" : "Sidney Road",
            "countryCode" : "in",
            "ip" : "116.75.115.248",
            "date" : ISODate("2020-02-08T16:38:06.584Z")
        }
    ]
}
user_46527060

Although the question was asked 9.6 years ago, this has been of immense help to numerous people, me being one of them. Thank you everyone for all your queries, hints and answers. Picking up from one of the answers here.. I found that the following method can also be used to project other fields in the parent document.This may be helpful to someone.

For the following document, the need was to find out if an employee (emp #7839) has his leave history set for the year 2020. Leave history is implemented as an embedded document within the parent Employee document. 

db.employees.find( {"leave_history.calendar_year": 2020}, 
    {leave_history: {$elemMatch: {calendar_year: 2020}},empno:true,ename:true}).pretty()


{
        "_id" : ObjectId("5e907ad23997181dde06e8fc"),
        "empno" : 7839,
        "ename" : "KING",
        "mgrno" : 0,
        "hiredate" : "1990-05-09",
        "sal" : 100000,
        "deptno" : {
                "_id" : ObjectId("5e9065f53997181dde06e8f8")
        },
        "username" : "none",
        "password" : "none",
        "is_admin" : "N",
        "is_approver" : "Y",
        "is_manager" : "Y",
        "user_role" : "AP",
        "admin_approval_received" : "Y",
        "active" : "Y",
        "created_date" : "2020-04-10",
        "updated_date" : "2020-04-10",
        "application_usage_log" : [
                {
                        "logged_in_as" : "AP",
                        "log_in_date" : "2020-04-10"
                },
                {
                        "logged_in_as" : "EM",
                        "log_in_date" : ISODate("2020-04-16T07:28:11.959Z")
                }
        ],
        "leave_history" : [
                {
                        "calendar_year" : 2020,
                        "pl_used" : 0,
                        "cl_used" : 0,
                        "sl_used" : 0
                },
                {
                        "calendar_year" : 2021,
                        "pl_used" : 0,
                        "cl_used" : 0,
                        "sl_used" : 0
                }
        ]
}
user_128344390

if you want to do filter, set and find at the same time.

let post = await Post.findOneAndUpdate(
          {
            _id: req.params.id,
            tasks: {
              $elemMatch: {
                id: req.params.jobId,
                date,
              },
            },
          },
          {
            $set: {
              'jobs.$[i].performer': performer,
              'jobs.$[i].status': status,
              'jobs.$[i].type': type,
            },
          },
          {
            arrayFilters: [
              {
                'i.id': req.params.jobId,
              },
            ],
            new: true,
          }
        );
user_128160490
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