count total number of elements inside an array in document - MongoDB

Question

I have a document related to the role or designations of employees. This is the document structure.

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5660c2a5b6fcba2d47baa2d9"),
    "role_id" : 4,
    "role_title" : "Carpenter",
    "employees" : [ 
        {
            "$ref" : "employees",
            "$id" : 4,
            "$db" : "db_cw2"
        }, 
        {
            "$ref" : "employees",
            "$id" : 5,
            "$db" : "db_cw2"
        }
    ]
},

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("5660c2a5b6fcba2d47baa2d6"),
    "role_id" : 1,
    "role_title" : "Chief Executive",
    "employees" : [ 
        {
            "$ref" : "employees",
            "$id" : 1,
            "$db" : "db_cw2"
        }
    ]
}

I want to write a query to show or count total number of employees who are working as 'Carpenter' or simple words count number of elements in 'employees' field where 'role_title' : 'Carpenter'.

I have written this query but it shows total number of employees in all the documents of the collection.

db.employee_role.aggregate(
   {
        $project: { 
            count: { $size:"$employees" }
        }
   }
)

Answer 1

You have to use $group instead:

db.employee_role.aggregate(
   {
        $group: {
            _id: "$role_title",
            total: { $sum: { $size:"$employees" } }
        }
   }
)

You group by role_title and then, you add the number of employees.