How can I update a subdocument in MongoDB? - node.js

Question

Code created in Mongoose to update a subdocument was not working. So I tried to update the subdocument within the Mongo Shell.
This is the document (location) and subdocument (review):
{
"_id" : ObjectId("56d8c73314fbc7e702cfb8c4"),
"name" : "Costly",
"address" : "150, Super Street",
"coords" : [
-0.9630884,
51.451041
],
"reviews" : [
{
"author" : "kyle riggen1",
"_id" : ObjectId("56d8de74cc7f953efd8455d9"),
"rating" : 4,
"timestamp" : ISODate("2015-06-01T06:00:00Z"),
"reviewText" : "will the ID work?"
}
],
"rating" : 0,
"__v" : 2
}
Here are some of my attempts at updating the subdocument:
This question gave this format:
update({
_id: "56d8c73314fbc7e702cfb8c4",
"reviews._id": ObjectId("56d8de74cc7f953efd8455d9")
},{
$set: {"reviews.$.rating": 1}
}, false, true
);
This returned an error of "update is not defined" as shown:
2016-03-03T22:52:44.445-0700 E QUERY [thread1] ReferenceError: update is not defined :
#(shell):1:1
Which I think is because the command did not start with db.locations.update()
MongoDB documentation used this format:
db.locations.update(
{
_id: "56d8c73314fbc7e702cfb8c4",
review: { $elemMatch: { author: "kyle riggen1" } }
},
{ $set: { "location.$.rating" : 1 } }
)
This returns a valid update but the update didn't actually happen as shown:
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 0, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 0 })
This question used this format:
db.locations.update({
_id: "56d8c73314fbc7e702cfb8c4",
'review.author': 'kyle riggen1'
},
{ $set: { 'review.$.rating': 1 }}
)
This returns the same as the MongoDB documentation as shown here:
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 0, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 0 })
So these queries I guess are working but my data is not getting updated. Would my data be indexed wrong perhaps? The actual location is able to be updated even through a Mongoose API.

Answer 1

You can do it By $push Or $addToSet.
db.col.update(
{ name: 'reviews', 'list.id': 2 },
{$push: {'list.$.items': {id: 5, name: 'item5'}}}
)
See the reference from mongodb Manual
https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/update/push/

Answer 2

Please know db.collection.update( criteria, objNew, upsert, multi )
criteria: match condition
objNew: update content
upsert: true or false
true : if not existed, insert it
false : if not existed, don't insert
multi: true or false
true : update all matched documents
false : only update the first matched document