Description
I've attempted to execute the following aggregation operation:
{
"names": {
"$reduce": {
"input": "$nestedNames",
"initialValue": "$names",
"in": {
"$setUnion": [
"$$value",
"$$this"
]
}
}
}
}
where the original structure is like this:
public class NamesLists {
public List<String> names;
public List<List<String>> nestedNames;
}
This, if I'm not mistaken, should correspond to the following Spring code:
AggregationOperation project = Aggregation.project()
.and(
ArrayOperators.Reduce.arrayOf("nestedNames")
.withInitialValue(Fields.field("names"))
.reduce(SetUnion.arrayAsSet(Variable.VALUE.getTarget()).union(Variable.THIS.getTarget()))
)
.as("names");
This, however, doesn't work with AggregationOptions.strictMapping()
, since Variable.VALUE
and Variable.THIS
are converted into $$value
and $$this
correspondingly, and document obviously doesn't have these fields.
This aggregation works without strict mapping, since in this case the variable names are passed into the document as-is. However, this is merely masking the problem.
It's possible that I was just incorrectly using the variables. In this case, it's probably better to have the documentation changed, since currently it seems that the only references to them are in documentation for ReduceBuilder.Reduce
.