Select records matching concat value of two fields in mongodb
You can only do it with aggregation framework, not with regular find.
db.coll.aggregate({$project:{newField:{$concat:["$field1","$field2"]}}},
{$match:{newField:"value"}}
);
Note that this will not be able to use any indexes, since there is no support for indexes on computed values in MongoDB (yet).
If you have an index on field1
and you know how many characters you expect field1 to contribute to value
you can improve performance of this aggregation like this:
db.coll.aggregate({$match:{field1:/^val/}},
{$project:{newField:{$concat:["$field1","$field2"]}}},
{$match:{newField:"value"}}
);
where val
is first part of "value" string (you must not compare more characters than the shortest possible value of field1
though.
EDIT as of version 3.6 you can do this in find using the $expr
expression:
db.coll.find({$expr:{$eq:["value", {$concat:["$field1", "$field2"]}]}})
If the argument ($field1 or $field2) resolves to a value of null or refers to a field that is missing, $concat returns null. Since mongoDB3.0, a new $ifNull is provided to check if the argument is null and provide an alternative
{ $ifNull: [ <expression>, <replacement-expression-if-null> ] }
db.coll.aggregate({$project:{newField:{$concat:[{$ifNull:["$field1",""]},{$ifNull:["$field2",""]}]}}},
{$match:{newField:"value"}})
The results may not differ if we are using $match, but this results will vary if you want to use $regex.
In Mongoose you can like that
let clause = [
{ $project: { name: { $concat: ["$first_name"," ","$last_name"]}}},
{ $match: { name: new RegExp("ab", 'i')}}
];
Model.aggregate(clause)
OutPut will be like that
[
{
"_id": "5911db2b9235272052fdd2e1",
"name": "Ali Abbas"
},
{
"_id": "5912f7dd8bdbc24aa37b5239",
"name": "Ali Abad"
},
{
"_id": "59229e0322abdb311818e419",
"name": "Syed Ali Abbas Shah"
},
{
"_id": "592837da188fa969cc135ddc",
"name": "Abu Akbar"
}
]