I'm trying to use a PHP mongo library to "aggregate" on a data structure like this:
{
"_id": 100,
"name": "Joe",
"pets":[
{
"name": "Kill me",
"animal": "Frog"
},
{
"name": "Petrov",
"animal": "Cat"
},
{
"name": "Joe",
"animal": "Frog"
}
]
},
{
"_id": 101,
"name": "Jane",
"pets":[
{
"name": "James",
"animal": "Hedgehog"
},
{
"name": "Franklin",
"animal": "Frog"
}
}
For example, if I want to get all subdocuments where the animal is a frog. Note that I do NOT want all matching "super-documents" (i.e. the ones with _id). I want to get an ARRAY that looks like this:
[
{
"name": "Kill me",
"animal": "Frog"
},
{
"name": "Joe",
"animal": "Frog"
},
{
"name": "Franklin",
"animal": "Frog"
}
]
What syntax am I supposed to use (in PHP) to accomplish this? I know it has to do with aggregate, but I couldn't find anything that matches this specific scenario.