How can I delete nested array element in a mongodb document with the c# driver

Question

I am new in the MongoDB world and now I am struggling of how can I delete, update element in a nested array field of a document. Here is my sample document:

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Answer 1

I was also facing the same problem and then finally after doing lot of R&D, I came to know that, you have to use PullFilter instead of Pull when you want to delete using filter.

Answer 2

Solution for C# MongoDB Driver. You can set empty [] the nested array.

var filter = Builders<MyUser>.Filter.Where(mu => mu.Id == "my user id");
var update = Builders<MyUser>.Update.Set(mu => mu.Phones, new List<Phone>());
_repository.Update(filter, update);

Answer 3

You are calling method Pull(string name, MongoDB.Bson.BsonValue value) and according to the docs it

Removes all values from the named array element that are equal to some value (see $pull)

and you provide { "Identifier", productId } as the value. I guess that mongo does not find that exact value.

Try to use the second overload of Pull with query-condition instead of exact value

Removes all values from the named array element that match some query (see $pull).

var update = Update.Pull("Products", Query.EQ("Identifier", productId));

UPDATE

Since you mention Category entity so I can suggest using lambda instead of Query.EQ:

var pull = Update<Category>.Pull(x => x.Products, builder =>
builder.Where(q => q.Identifier == productId));

Answer 4

Solution with C# MongoDB Driver. Delete a single nested element.

var filter = Builders<YourModel>.Filter.Where(ym => ym.Id == ymId);
var update = Builders<YourModel>.Update.PullFilter(ym => ym.NestedItems, Builders<NestedModel>.Filter.Where(nm => nm.Id == nestedItemId));
_repository.Update(filter, update);

Answer 5

Hi as per my understanding you want to remove whole matched elements of given id and identifier so below query will solve your problem but I don't know how to convert this into C#, here mongo $pull method used.

db.collectionName.update({"_id" : ObjectId("55f354533dd61e5004ca5208")}, {"$pull":{"Products":{"Identifier":"170220151653"}}})

Answer 6

I had the same of deleting elements from the nested array but after research, I found this piece of working code.

var update = Builders<Category>.Update.PullFilter(y => y.Products, builder => builder.Identifier== productId);
var result = await _context.Category.UpdateOneAsync(filter, update);
return result.IsAcknowledged && result.ModifiedCount > 0;