CRUD operations on Array objects nested within an Object in MongoDB Spring Boot

Question

I have a MongoDB object which was created using a Map. I\'m trying to add CRUD methods to EDIT and DELETE objects from the arrays w

Answer 1

After much searching and guidance from Discord, I finally found a solution. I've probably searched all of StackOverflow and tried many implementations but nothing seemed to work. So the idea is to find the array and Query through an object value containing the id. Then, simply use an Update function according to your needs and save it with MongoTemplate.

Note that MongoDB stores id's as _id while the JSON returns it as simply id. This realization was the final step in making it work.

@Autowired
MongoTemplate mongoTemplate;
    

public void delete(String semester, int id){

        // Set the query as Object.Array_name.property
        Query query = new Query();
        query.addCriteria(Criteria.where("courses.Spring._id").is("123"));

        // Now, remove the entire object containing the query
        Update update = new Update();
        update.unset("course_list.Spring2022.$");

        mongoTemplate.updateMulti(query, update, Semester.class);
        
}

Now, if you want to edit, the same concepts apply using the SET() function

  public void edit(Courses courses) {

        Query query = new Query();
        query.addCriteria(Criteria.where("courses.Spring._id").is("CS332"));
        Update update = new Update();
        update.set("course_list.Spring2022.$", courses);

        mongoTemplate.updateMulti(query, update, Semester.class);
       
    }