MongoDB queries return no results - json

Question

I'm having a problem with querying a MongoDB dataset ("On Street Crime in Camden" from data.gov.uk)
The database name is Crime_Data_in_Camden and the collection name is Street_Crime_Camden. The query to find all records, db.Street_Crime_Camden.find(), works fine but anything else returns nothing at
all. Here is a portion of the metadata:
{
"id" : 509935,
"name" : "Ward Name",
"dataTypeName" : "text",
"fieldName" : "ward_name",
"position" : 13,
"renderTypeName" : "text",
"tableColumnId" : 258836,
"width" : 100,
"cachedContents" : {
"largest" : "West Hampstead",
"non_null" : 79813,
"null" : 0,
"top" : [ {
"item" : "Regent's Park",
"count" : 20
}, {
"item" : "Swiss Cottage",
"count" : 19
}, {
"item" : "Holborn and Covent Garden",
"count" : 18
}
}
}
I've tried 3 attempts at a basic query:
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({"ward_name":"West Hampstead"});
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({'meta.ward_name':'West Hampstead'});
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({meta:{ward_name:"West Hampstead"} });
According to any documentation or tutorial that I've seen any of these approaches should be valid. And I know that there are hundreds of rows (or documents) that match those terms, so why are these queries returning nothing? Advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

The common theme in the three aproaches you tried is some form of ward_name = West Hampstead but there is no attribute named ward_name in the document you shared with us.
Based on the document you show in your question the only way of addressing an attribute with the value West Hampstead is:
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({"cachedContents.largest": "West Hampstead"});
For background; you address attributes in your documents by using dot notation so the document you included in your question could be found by any of the following find commands:
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({"name": "Ward Name"});
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({"position": 13});
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({"cachedContents.top.item": "Swiss Cottage"});
db.Street_Crime_Camden.find({"cachedContents.top.1.count": 20});
... etc
These examples might help you to understand how to form find criteria. The MongoDB docs are also useful.