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$expr

New from version 4.0.

Not supported by Elastic cluster.

The $expr operator in Amazon DocumentDB allows you to use aggregation expressions within the query language. It enables you to perform complex comparisons and computations on fields within a document, similar to the way you would use aggregation pipeline stages.

Parameters

Example (MongoDB Shell)

The following example demonstrates how to use the $expr operator to find all documents where the manufacturingCost field is greater than the price field.

Create sample documents

db.inventory.insertMany([
  { item: "abc", manufacturingCost: 500, price: 100 },
  { item: "def", manufacturingCost: 300, price: 450 },
  { item: "ghi", manufacturingCost: 400, price: 120 }
]);

Query example

db.inventory.find({
  $expr: {
    $gt: ["$manufacturingCost", "$price"]
  }
})

Output

{ "_id" : ObjectId("60b9d4d68d2cac581bc5a89a"), "item" : "abc", "manufacturingCost" : 500, "price" : 100 },
{ "_id" : ObjectId("60b9d4d68d2cac581bc5a89c"), "item" : "ghi", "manufacturingCost" : 400, "price" : 120 }

Code examples

To view a code example for using the $expr command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:

Node.js

const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');

async function example() {
  const client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
  const db = client.db('test');
  const collection = db.collection('inventory');

  const result = await collection.find({
    $expr: {
      $gt: ['$manufacturingCost', '$price']
    }
  }).toArray();

  console.log(result);
  await client.close();
}

example();

Python

from pymongo import MongoClient

def example():
    client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
    db = client['test']
    collection = db['inventory']

    result = list(collection.find({
        '$expr': {
            '$gt': ['$manufacturingCost', '$price']
        }
    }))

    print(result)
    client.close()

example()