How to update multiple value of specific embedded document, inside an array, of a specific document in MongoDB?

How to update multiple value of specific embedded document, inside an array, of a specific document in MongoDB?

MongoDB has a limitation of the same.

for more details please find the below link for your information.

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1243

for example you have a JSON structure like this ...

{
"_id" : ObjectId("52ce2e4c9109b0e2274a388b"),
"address" : {
"street" : "Aurthor Street 1",
"area" : "Area 1",
"city" : "New York 1",
"country" : "UK"
},
"age" : 29,
"commList" : [
{
"userId" : 1,
"firstName" : "Commenter First Name",
"lastName" : "Commenter Last Name",
"commentText" : "Comment Text",
"date" : ISODate("2014-01-09T05:06:20.283Z")
},
{
"userId" : 1,
"firstName" : "Commenter First Name",
"lastName" : "Commenter Last Name",
"commentText" : "Comment Text 2",
"date" : ISODate("2014-01-09T11:59:57.050Z")
}
],
"commentCount" : 2,
"name" : "Jamse Cook"
}


Now the user name is changed and we need to update the it.

If we try using java code like :

DBCollection dbCollection = getCollection();
JacksonDBCollection<Person, String> coll = JacksonDBCollection.wrap(dbCollection, Person.class, String.class);

DBUpdate.Builder builder = new DBUpdate.Builder();
builder.set("commList.$.firstName", "Puneet");

WriteResult<Person, String> result = coll.update(DBQuery.is("commList.userId", 1), builder);
System.out.println("rows updated :: " + result.getN());

It updates the first occurence only.

you can use the below code and run it on mongoshell which will update the all occurances
var runUpdate = function(){
db.test.find({"commList.userId" : 1}).forEach( function(test) {
for(var i in test.commList){
test.commList[i].firstName = 'abhijit';
}
db.test.save(test);
});
};

db.eval(runUpdate);