Task: Queried Element in an Array

Suppose you have a collection called figures containing the following documents.

{
    "_id" : 1
    "shapes" : [
        { "shape": "square", "color": "blue" },
        { "shape": "circle", "color": "red" }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 2
    "shapes" : [
        { "shape": "triangle", "color": "black" },
        { "shape": "square", "color": "orange" }
    ]
}

The following query:

db.test.find({"shapes.color": "red"}, {"shapes.shape": 1, "_id": 0})

or this query:

db.test.find({shapes: {"$elemMatch": {color: "red"}}},
             {"shapes.shape": 1, "_id": 0})

will return the first document in the collection, but always with ALL array items in shapes.

{
    "shapes": [
        {"shape": "square"},
        {"shape": "circle"}
    ]
}

Write a query that will return only the array item that matched the query in the shapes array.

shannonbradshaw/task-queried-element-in-array.rst