Mongoose query where value is not null

Question

You should be able to do this like (as you're using the query api):

Entrant.where("pincode").ne(null)

... which will result in a mongo query resembling:

entrants.find({ pincode: { $ne: null } })

A few links that might help:

• The mongoose query api
• The docs for mongo query operators

$ne

selects the documents where the value of the field is not equal to the specified value. This includes documents that do not contain the field.

User.find({ "username": { "$ne": 'admin' } })

$nin

$nin selects the documents where: the field value is not in the specified array or the field does not exist.

User.find({ "groups": { "$nin": ['admin', 'user'] } })

I ended up here and my issue was that I was querying for

{$not: {email: /@domain.com/}}

instead of

{email: {$not: /@domain.com/}}

Ok guys I found a possible solution to this problem. I realized that joins do not exists in Mongo, that's why first you need to query the user's ids with the role you like, and after that do another query to the profiles document, something like this:

    const exclude: string = '-_id -created_at -gallery -wallet -MaxRequestersPerBooking -active -__v';

  // Get the _ids of users with the role equal to role.
    await User.find({role: role}, {_id: 1, role: 1, name: 1},  function(err, docs) {

        // Map the docs into an array of just the _ids
        var ids = docs.map(function(doc) { return doc._id; });

        // Get the profiles whose users are in that set.
        Profile.find({user: {$in: ids}}, function(err, profiles) {
            // docs contains your answer
            res.json({
                code: 200,
                profiles: profiles,
                page: page
            })
        })
        .select(exclude)
        .populate({
            path: 'user',
            select: '-password -verified -_id -__v'
            // group: { role: "$role"} 
          })
    });