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copied!<p>Another day. Another Mongodb query. </p> <p>I wish to create the following structure in once of my collections: </p> <p><code>amitverma</code> is the user and the nested object is message's UTC timestamp. I want to push messages in the following structure.</p> <pre><code>{ "username" : "macbook", "messages" : { "amitverma" : { "1383321755" : { "to" : "macbook", "message" : "hi.", "sender" : "amitverma", }, "1383321712" : { "to" : "macbook", "message" : "hi.", "sender" : "amitverma", } } }, "_id" : ObjectId("5273d09ab743db7a5f000001") } </code></pre> <p>I cant use $push or $addToSet as it isnt an array. Or can I? </p> <p>Also, I have the following code right now: </p> <pre><code>var pushNotification = {}; var addon = {}; var anotheraddon = {}; var utcTime = arrayOps.encodeTime(); addon[data.sender] = []; anotheraddon[utcTime] = data; addon[data.sender].push(anotheraddon); // var a = pushNotification; // a.push(anotheraddon); // console.log(pushNotification); pushNotification['messages'] = {} pushNotification['messages'][data.sender] = []; pushNotification['messages'][data.sender] = data; var a = 'messages.' + data.sender + '.$'; console.log('push object'); console.log(pushNotification); co_notifications.update( {'username': data.to}, { $addToSet: pushNotification}, function(err, docs){ console.log(err); console.log(docs); if (docs == 0){ co_notifications.insert( {'username': data.to, 'messages': addon}, function(er, doc){ }); } }, {upsert: true} ); </code></pre> <p>Excuse the garbage code. The above code results in this structure: </p> <pre><code>{ "username" : "macbook", "messages" : { "amitverma" : [ { "1383321755" : { "to" : "macbook", "message" : "hi.", "sender" : "amitverma", } } ] }, "_id" : ObjectId("5273d09ab743db7a5f000001") } </code></pre> <p>which isn't exactly what I desire. </p> <p>Is there a way I can create the structure I want and also read and update from the same easily? Thanks. </p>

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