How to ensure unique item in an array based on specific fields - mongoDB?

Question

In my scenerio, there are authors in a collection, each author has messages and each message of author can has events. Each actor allowed to perfor

Answer 1

Mustafa, unique constraints are not enforced within a single array, although they're enforced among documents in a collection. This is a known bug that won't be fixed for a while:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1068

There's a workaround, though. Keep your unique index in place, and:

1) Ensure your application does not insert new documents with duplicate values in the array. You can check for uniqueness in your application code before inserting.

2) When updating existing documents use $addToSet instead of $push.