I'm having trouble understanding arrays in Go, especially with both graphql and mongo. With JS this all would've been a breeze for me, but I'm wondering if you can look at what I have and point out the obvious!
I'm looking for an object to be shaped like the following:
time
├── login
│ ├── 0
│ │ └── "2021-08-16T20:11:54-07:00"
│ ├── 1
│ │ └── "2021-08-16T20:11:54-07:00"
│ └── 2
└── "2021-08-16T20:11:54-07:00"
models.go:
type Time struct {
Login []string
}
type User struct {
ID graphql.ID
Time Time
}
schema.graphql:
type Time {
login: [String!]!
}
type User {
id: ID!
time: Time!
}
database.go:
filter := bson.D{{Key: "email", Value: email}}
arr := [1]string{time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)}
update := bson.D{
{Key: "$push", Value: bson.D{
{Key: "time.login", Value: arr},
}},
}
result, err := collection.UpdateOne(ctx, filter, update)
I've also tried:
update := bson.D{
{Key: "$push", Value: bson.D{
{Key: "time.login", Value: time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)},
}},
}
result, err := collection.UpdateOne(ctx, filter, update)
But always end up with the same error:
error="write exception: write errors: [The field 'time.login' must be an array but is of type null in document {_id: ObjectId('611b28fabffe7f3694bc86dc')}]"
[1]string{}
is an array. []string{}
is a slice. The two are different. An array is a fixed size object. A slice can grow/shrink dynamically.
In this case, you should not be using either, because $push
gets a value, not a slice:
update := bson.D{
{Key: "$push", Value: bson.D{
{Key: "time.login", Value: time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)},
}},
}