I've seen 2 main types of schema for subdocuments:
{
"cbill@boogiemail:com": {
"outbound": [
{
"name": "First",
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "active"
},
"data": {
}
},
{
"name": "Second",
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "draft"
},
"data": {
}
}
],
"inbound" : [
{
"name": "First",
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "active"
},
"data": {
}
},
{
"name": "Second",
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "draft"
},
"data": {
}
}
]
}
}
The alternative structure is:
{
"cbill@boogiemail:com": {
"outbound": {
"First": {
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "active"
},
"data": {
}
},
"Second": {
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "draft"
},
"data": {
}
}
},
"inbound" : {
"First": {
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "active"
},
"data": {
}
},
"Second": {
"state": {
"saved": "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited": "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status": "draft"
},
"data": {
}
}
}
}
}
The main difference between the two is the structure of the inbound/outbound subdocuments.
What is the best practice for Mongo DB subdocument structures? And in each case, what query would get me the subdocument pointed to by:
cbill@boogiemail:com.inbound.Second ?
To add a bit more information:
The collection will have many different documents starting with different email addresses, but each document in the collection will only have a few subdocuments under the inbound/outbound keys.
Found the answer from here (https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-select-a-specific-subdocument-in-mongodb) after some slight modifications to that.
The query for the second example (which was the one that I was most interested in) was:
find({ "cbill@boogiemail:com.inbound": {$exists: true}},{"cbill@boogiemail:com.inbound.Second":1}).pretty()
This results in:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("6216a9940b84b1a642cb925e"),
"cbill@boogiemail:com" : {
"inbound" : {
"Second" : {
"state" : {
"saved" : "cbill@boogiemail.com",
"edited" : "connie@boogiemail.com",
"status" : "draft"
},
"data" : {
}
}
}
}
}
Whether this is the most efficient query I'm not sure - feel free to post any better alternatives.