Can't append to array using string field name [$] when performing update on array fields
- by Haraldo
rowsI am attempting to perform a mongodb update on each field in an array of records.
An example schema is below:
{
"_id" : ObjectId("508710f16dc636ec07000022"),
"summary" : "",
"uid" : "ABCDEF",
"username" : "bigcheese",
"name" : "Name of this document",
"status_id" : 0,
"rows" : [
{
"score" : 12,
"status_id" : 0,
"uid" : 1
},
{
"score" : 51,
"status_id" : 0,
"uid" : 2
}
]
}
So far I have been able to perform single updates like this:
db.mycollection.update({"uid":"ABCDEF","rows.uid":1}, {$set:{"rows.$.status_id":1}},false,false)
However, I am struggling as to how to perform an update that will update all array records to a status_id of 1 (for instance).
Below is how I imagine it should work:
db.mycollection.update({"uid":"ABCDEF"}, {$set:{"rows.$.status_id":1}},false,true)
However I get the error:
can't append to array using string field name [$]
I have tried for quite a while with no luck. Any pointers?
