SQL Query CONTAINS property value in array of objects - azure

Question

I am trying to create a SQL query to get a list of companies that a User belongs to. The database is Cosmos DB Serverless, and the container is called "Companies" with multiple company items inside:
The structure of the company items are as follows:
{
"id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
"name": "Company Name",
"users": [
{
"id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
"name": "Susan Washington",
"email": "susan.washington#gmail.com",
"createdBy": "xxxx#gmail.com",
"createdServerDateUTC": "2022-01-12T19:21:10.0644424Z",
"createdLocalTime": "2022-01-12T19:21:09Z"
},
{
"id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
"name": "Kerwin Evans",
"title": "Test Dev",
"email": "kerwin.e#yahoo.com",
"createdBy": "xxxx#gmail.com",
"createdServerDateUTC": "2022-01-12T19:21:10.0644424Z",
"createdLocalTime": "2022-01-12T19:21:09Z"
},
ETC.
]
}
And this is the SQL query I was trying to use, where user is an email that I pass in:
SELECT *
FROM c
WHERE IS_NULL(c.deletedServerDateUTC) = true
AND CONTAINS(c.users, user)
ORDER BY c.name DESC
OFFSET 0 LIMIT 10
This doesn't work, because the users property is an array. So I believe I need to check each object in the users array to see if the email property matches the user I enter in.

Answer 1

You can query the array via ARRAY_CONTAINS(). Something like this to return company names for a given username that you specify:
SELECT c.name
FROM c
WHERE ARRAY_CONTAINS(c.users,{'name': username}, true)
The 3rd parameter set to true means the array elements are documents, not scalar values.