Returning inner array elements from multiple document in sorted form

Question

hyy there, my collection goes like this and I am trying to get all comments list of particular blog_id in sorted order of date.

    [
{
    \"_id\" : ObjectI         


        

Answer 1

Jorin,

Try this:

db.comments.aggregate(
[
  {$match: {blog_id: ObjectId("56587befdb7224110f007233")}}, //match blogid
  {"$unwind": "$comments"}, //unwind the comments array
  {$sort: {"comments.dt": 1}}, //sort the comment documents by date
  {
    "$group": {
        "_id": '$blog_id', //group comment documents by blog_id
        "comments": {
            "$push": "$comments" //push comments of same blog_id into an array
        }
    }
}])

Based upon your sample data the output will be:

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("56587befdb7224110f007233"),
    "comments" : [
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "wat a nice car wow",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565efa37635f09900d21a33a"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T14:03:35.289Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "love is life budikhola ma dives",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565efa76635f09900d21a33b"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T14:04:38.661Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "bholi ajaya ko bihe",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565efaa0635f09900d21a33c"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T14:05:20.847Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "manish is nice",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565efb17635f09900d21a33d"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T14:07:19.704Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "niroj is cool",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565efd53c22ffffdc80e8f461c"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T14:16:51.730Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "ramesh is cool",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565f0d376d82e24c11f6c0d1"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T15:24:39.010Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "pradip is bhole baba",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565f0f5d77f0c7bd11bbadd9"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T15:33:49.578Z")
        },
        {
            "user_id" : ObjectId("562fa014888806820e21e0df"),
            "user_full_name" : "Niroj Paudel",
            "comment" : "honkog pokhara... he he ha ha",
            "_id" : ObjectId("565f1034fd07cbfc1129db0b"),
            "dt" : ISODate("2015-12-02T15:37:24.581Z")
        }
    ]
}

Answer 2

to do this, you can use method findById then sort your comments with method sort of mongoose.

With a example :

Blog.find({blog_id : YOUR_BLOG_ID}, 'comments')
.sort('dt')
.exec(function(err, docs){
 console.log(docs); // do whatever you want with your docs
});

Something like that should do the job.