$mul

The $mul operator in Amazon DocumentDB is used to multiply the value of a field by a specified number. This can be useful for updating multiple documents atomically and consistently, such as updating flight miles based on a credit card status.

Parameters

Example (MongoDB Shell)

This example demonstrates how to use the $mul operator to double the flight_miles value for all documents where the credit_card field is true.

Create sample documents

db.miles.insertMany([
  { "_id": 1, "member_since": new Date("1987-01-01"), "credit_card": false, "flight_miles": [1205, 2560, 880] },
  { "_id": 2, "member_since": new Date("1982-01-01"), "credit_card": true, "flight_miles": [2410, 5120, 1780, 5560] },
  { "_id": 3, "member_since": new Date("1999-01-01"), "credit_card": true, "flight_miles": [2410, 1760] }
]);

Query example

db.miles.update(
  { "credit_card": { "$eq": true } },
  { "$mul": { "flight_miles.$[]": NumberInt(2) } },
  { "multi": true }
);

Output

{ "_id" : 1, "member_since" : ISODate("1987-01-01T00:00:00Z"), "credit_card" : false, "flight_miles" : [ 1205, 2560, 880 ] }
{ "_id" : 2, "member_since" : ISODate("1982-01-01T00:00:00Z"), "credit_card" : true, "flight_miles" : [ 4820, 10240, 3560, 11120 ] }
{ "_id" : 3, "member_since" : ISODate("1999-01-01T00:00:00Z"), "credit_card" : true, "flight_miles" : [ 4820, 3520 ] }

For the customers that have a credit card, their flight miles have been doubled.

The $[] positional array operator is used to apply the $mul operation to each element in the flight_miles array.

Code examples

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

Node.js

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

async function updateFlightMiles() {
  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('miles');

  await collection.updateMany(
    { credit_card: true },
    { $mul: { 'flight_miles.$[]': 2 } }
  );

  const documents = await collection.find().toArray();
  console.log(documents);

  await client.close();
}

updateFlightMiles();

Python

from pymongo import MongoClient

def update_flight_miles():
    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.miles

    collection.update_many(
        {'credit_card': True},
        {'$mul': {'flight_miles.$[]': 2}}
    )

    documents = list(collection.find())
    print(documents)

    client.close()

update_flight_miles()