Mongodb insert with multiple conditions - json

Question

I'm having multiple documents in a collection, each document has this data structure :
{
_id: "some object id",
data1: [
{
data2_id : 13233,
data2: [
{
sub_data1: "text1",
sub_data2: "text2",
sub_data3: "text3",
},
{
sub_data1: "text4",
sub_data2: "text5",
sub_data3: "text6",
}
]
},
{
data2_id : 53233,
data2: [
{
sub_data1: "text4",
sub_data2: "text5",
sub_data3: "text6",
}
...
]
},
{
data2_id : 56233,
data2: [
{
sub_data1: "text7",
sub_data2: "text8",
sub_data3: "text9",
}
...
]
},
{
data2_id : 53236,
data2: [
{
sub_data1: "text10",
sub_data2: "text22",
sub_data3: "text33",
}
...
]
}
]
}
I'd like to update to a set of ids that maches some condition, update only the sub object within the document.
I've tries this:
db.collection.update({
"$and": [
{
"_id": {
"$in": [
{
"$id": "54369aca9bc25af3ca8b4568"
},
{
"$id": "54369aca9bc25af3ca8b4562"
}
]
}
},
{
"data1.data2": {
"$elemMatch": {
"sub_data1": "text4",
"sub_data2": "text5"
}
}
}
]
},
{
"data1.data2.$.sub_data3" : "text updated"
}
)
But I get the following error:
Update of data into MongoDB failed: dev.**.com:27017: cannot use the part (data2 of data1.data2.0.sub_data3) to traverse the element...
Any Ideas?

Answer 1

There is an open issue here that imposes a limitation when trying to update elements of an array nested within another array.
Besides, there are some improvements you can do here:
For your query you don't need the $and
db.collection.update(
{
"_id": {
"$in": [
{"$id": "54369aca9bc25af3ca8b4568"},
{"$id": "54369aca9bc25af3ca8b4562"}
]},
"data1.data2": {
"$elemMatch": {
"sub_data1": "text4",
"sub_data2": "text5"
}
},{..update...})
You might want to use $set:
db.collection.update(query,{ $set:{"name": "Mike"} })
Otherwise, you might lose the rest of the data within your document.