How to join nested Array Elements?

Working with Data
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Hello,

I have a document with nested arrays T and O like this one:

    {
      "_id": "XXX",
      "T": [
        {
          "Classification": "GROUP A",
          "O": [ "A", "B"  ]
        },
        {
          "Classification": "GROUP B",
          "O": ["C", "D"]
        }
      ]
    }
I need to join all elements of O at T-level
    {
      "_id": "XXX",
      "T": [
        {
          "Classification": "GROUP A",
          "_O":  "A,B"  
        },
        {
          "Classification": "GROUP B",
          "_O": "C,D"
        }
      ]
    }

But I get “A,B,C,D” with my solution

db.O.aggregate( [{ $addFields: { ‘T._O’: { $function: { body: ‘function (x) { return x.join(','); }’, args: [ ‘$T.O’ ], lang: ‘js’ } } } }] )

A help will be highly appreciated.

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I highly recommend not using $function due to any JS on the server being slower than it needs to be.

The issue is that you are passing a single "$T.O" to the JS function, and telling it to set a single "$T._O" field so all the values of O are being joined together. Here is how I would do it (without using JS):

db.O.aggregate([{$addFields:{T:{$map:{
      input:"$T",
      in: {$mergeObjects:[ 
          "$$this",
          { _O: {$reduce: {
                  input:{$slice:["$$this.O", 1, {$size:"$$this.O"}]},
                  initialValue: {$arrayElemAt:["$$this.O",0]},
                  in: {$concat: ["$$value", ",", "$$this"]}
          }}}
      ]}
}}}}])

That results in:

{
"_id" : "XXX",
"T" : [
	{
		"Classification" : "GROUP A",
		"O" : [
			"A",
			"B"
		],
		"_O" : "A,B"
	},
	{
		"Classification" : "GROUP B",
		"O" : [
			"C",
			"D"
		],
		"_O" : "C,D"
	}
  ]
}
3

Hi Asya,
thanks a lot.
I try to understand it:
To add a field to an array of objects i have to use $map together with $mergeObjects.
Then I get with $$this.O the nested array belongs to the actual object where I can join the elements with $reduce and $concat.

Greetings Axel

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To add a field to an array of objects i have to use $map together with $mergeObjects

Exactly!