How to make nested queries in MongoDb that works like nested Sql select queries

Question

I want to make an efficient query in MongoDb to find all users who have their userids listed in a usergroup. Ideally I want to make this as a single request to Mongodb. What I w

Answer 1

db.usergroup.aggregate([
  { $match: { _id: "g1" } }, 
  { $unwind: "$Users" }, 
  { $lookup: 
    { from: "user", localField: "Users", foreignField: "_id", as: "user" } 
  } 
])

// result :
{ "_id" : "g1", "Users" : "u2", "user" : [ { "_id" : "u2", "Name" : "u1 name" } ] }
{ "_id" : "g1", "Users" : "u3", "user" : [ { "_id" : "u3", "Name" : "u3 name" } ] }