express/mongoose update query - node.js

Question

I having problem wrapping my head around updating multiple values in my mongoDB using mongooseJS and ExpressJS.
Let say I submit an array of 2 or more objects from my frontend to "express routing" and there I get the req.body parameters to fetch it. My req.body looks like this:
[articles:
{ article: {
_id: '564209c66c23d5d20c37bd84',
quantity: 25,
},
{ article: {
_id: '564209c66c23d5d20c37bd83',
quantity: 51,
},
}]
I then need to loop? to find the specific article in the db to update and when that article is found I want to update the "quantity" value from the frontend to the correct article in db.
var id = [];
var body = {};
for (var i = req.body.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
id.push(req.body[i].article._id);
body[i] = req.body[i].article.quantity;
};
Articles.update(
{ _id: {$in: id} },
{ $set: {quantity: body[0].article.quantity} },
{multi: true},
function(err, response){
if(err)
console.log(err);
console.log(response);
});
The problem with this code is that I put in the first quantity value for all articles and I want it to be the correct one from the frontend. It feels like I'm on the right path but i pretty new to mongoDB and express so if there is a better solution or even a solution let me know.

Answer 1

Grahlie,
If you are having issues with queries, it's sometimes useful to test queries from the mongodb shell itself to workout the logic.
If your article documents are structured as such:
{
_id: ObjectId("564209c66c23d5d20c37bd84"),
quantity: 25
}
{
_id: ObjectId("564209c66c23d5d20c37bd83"),
quantity: 51
}
If you want to update the quantity of a unique document based on it's _id then you could so with this query.
db.articles.update(
{"_id": "564209c66c23d5d20c37bd84"},
{$set : { "quantity" : 25}}
)
If you wanted to update multiple documents with the same quantity you could use $in, but that's not what you want to do. You want to loop through your req.body array and update the quantity of each article.
So your code would be as such:
var articles = req.body;
var updateArticle = function(article) {
Articles.update(
{_id:article._id},
{$set:{ quantity: article.quantity}},
function(err, article){
...
);
}
for(var i = 0, n = articles.length; i < n; i++){
updateArticle(articles.[i].article);
}