How to search date range in aggregate

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#1

Hello, I’m trying to make a request for my forum, I’ve worked with date for the schema.find without problem but can’t make it work with aggregate, can someone help me please ?

//Get Post Number By Category and range of Day
module.exports.postCatDate_GET = async (req, res) => {
    const day = parseInt(req.query.day); // ?day=100
    try {
        var posts = await Post.aggregate([{ 
            createdAt: {
                "$gte": ISODate(new Date(new Date() - day * 60 * 60 * 24 * 1000)),
            },
            "$group": {
                _id: "$categoryId",
                count: {
                    $sum: 1
                }
            }
        }])

        res.status(200).json(posts);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).json(err);
    }
}

The group part work but I can’t add the date search like in find, I’ve read a lot about ISODate but keep the internal error.

#2

Hello @Virgil_Nauleau, Welcome to the MongoDB Community forum!

First, there are syntax errors in your aggregation pipeline. Each stage is to be within a set of braces { ... }. And, each stage has a stage name like, $match, $group, $project, etc.

You define stages like this and build the pipeline, and then run the query:

var match_stage = {
    $match: { 
        createdAt: { $gte: { .... } } 
    }
}

var group_stage = {
    $group: {
        _id: "$categoryId",
        count: { $sum: 1 }
    }
}

var pipeline = [ match_stage, group_stage ]
var posts = await Post.aggregate(pipeline)
// ... rest of your code here

Reference:

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#3

Hi,

You should use the $match stage to match documents, and $group stage to group them:

db.orders.aggregate([
  {
    "$match": {
      "createdAt": {
        "$gte": ISODate(new Date(new Date() - day * 60 * 60 * 24 * 1000))
      }     
    }
  },
  {
    "$group": {
      "_id": "$categoryId",
      "count": {
        "$sum": 1
      }
    }
  }
])
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#5

Thank you so much !!! T.T It perfectly work, kinda remind me Prepare table of sqlite using Golang
I think I will make var like that more often for my agregate

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#6

I tryed it like that but didnt worked, maybe because of the .orders that ive never saw before (for the rest ive tryed exactly the same

#7

Also why using ISODate while it work the same with just “new Date()” ?

#8

ISODate is same as that of the Date in mongosh.

#9

I am working with Node.js and I also use new Date() in queries. I copied ISODate() from the question.

#10

At first i though it was a necessary cast because everyone does it (from forum I’ve seen from my problem) but resulting in changing absolutely nothing that’s why I was asking

#11

Folks, when working with a NodeJS application (using MongoDB NodeJS Driver or Mongoose ODM), use the JavaScript Date. ISODate is for mongo shell (see my previous comment links).

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#12

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