MongoDB: Upserting and Sub documents

Question

Let\'s assume the following schema:

{
  \'_id\' : \'star_wars\',
  \'count\' : 1234,
  \'spellings\' : [ 
    { spelling: \'Star wars\', total: 10}, 
    { spell         


        

Answer 1

You could change your schema a little, though. If your documents looked like this:

{
  '_id' : 'star_wars',
  'count' : 1234,
  'spellings' :  
    { 
        'Star wars': 10, 
        'Star Wars': 15, 
        'sTaR WaRs': 5
    }
}

Your updates would become as simple as:

db.movies.update({_id:"star_wars"},{$inc:{"spellings.Star Wars":1}},true)