You can use $pull operator for this. Let us first create a collection with documents −
> db.removeNullDemo.insertOne(
... {
... "_id" : 1,
... "StudentDetails" : [
... {
... "FirstName": "John",
... "LastName":"Smith",
...
... },
... {
... "Age":21
... },
... null
...
... ]
... }
... );
{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 1 }
> db.removeNullDemo.insertOne(
... {
... "_id" : 2,
... "StudentDetails" : [
... {
... "FirstName": "Carol",
... "LastName":"Taylor",
...
... },
... {
... "Age":23
... }
...
...
... ]
... }
... );
{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 2 }
Following is the query to display all documents from the collection with the help of find() method −
> db.removeNullDemo.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{
"_id" : 1,
"StudentDetails" : [
{
"FirstName" : "John",
"LastName" : "Smith"
},
{
"Age" : 21
},
null
]
}
{
"_id" : 2,
"StudentDetails" : [
{
"FirstName" : "Carol",
"LastName" : "Taylor"
},
{
"Age" : 23
}
]
}
Following is the query to remove null element from MongoDB array −
> db.removeNullDemo.update({_id:1},{$pull:{StudentDetails:null}});
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })
Let us check the null has been removed or not −
> db.removeNullDemo.find().pretty();
This will produce the following output −
{
"_id" : 1,
"StudentDetails" : [
{
"FirstName" : "John",
"LastName" : "Smith"
},
{
"Age" : 21
}
]
}
{
"_id" : 2,
"StudentDetails" : [
{
"FirstName" : "Carol",
"LastName" : "Taylor"
},
{
"Age" : 23
}
]
}