$and (expression operator)

Definition

$and

Evaluates one or more expressions and returns true if all of the expressions are true or if run with no argument expressions. Otherwise, $and returns false.

$and syntax:

{ $and: [ <expression1>, <expression2>, ... ] }

For more information on expressions, see Expressions.

Behavior

In addition to the false boolean value, $and evaluates as false the following: null, 0, and undefined values. The $and evaluates all other values as true, including non-zero numeric values and arrays.

Error Handling

To allow the query engine to optimize queries, $and handles errors as follows:

• If any expression supplied to $and would cause an error when evaluated alone, the $and containing the expression may cause an error but an error is not guaranteed.

• An expression supplied after the first expression supplied to $and may cause an error even if the first expression evaluates to false.

For example, the following query always produces an error if $x is 0:

db.example.find( {
 $expr: { $eq: [ { $divide: [ 1, "$x" ] }, 3 ] }
} )

The following query, which contains multiple expressions supplied to $and, may produce an error if there is any document where $x is 0:

db.example.find( {
 $and: [
 { x: { $ne: 0 } },
 { $expr: { $eq: [ { $divide: [ 1, "$x" ] }, 3 ] } }
 ]
} )

Example

Create an example inventory collection with these documents:

db.inventory.insertMany([
 { _id: 1, item: "abc1", description: "product 1", qty: 300 },
 { _id: 2, item: "abc2", description: "product 2", qty: 200 },
 { _id: 3, item: "xyz1", description: "product 3", qty: 250 },
 { _id: 4, item: "VWZ1", description: "product 4", qty: 300 },
 { _id: 5, item: "VWZ2", description: "product 5", qty: 180 }
])

This operation uses the $and operator to determine if qty is greater than 100 and less than 250:

db.inventory.aggregate(
 [
 {
 $project:
 {
 item: 1,
 qty: 1,
 result: { $and: [ { $gt: [ "$qty", 100 ] }, { $lt: [ "$qty", 250 ] } ] }
 }
 }
 ]
)

The operation returns these results:

{ _id: 1, item: "abc1", qty: 300, result: false }
{ _id: 2, item: "abc2", qty: 200, result: true }
{ _id: 3, item: "xyz1", qty: 250, result: false }
{ _id: 4, item: "VWZ1", qty: 300, result: false }
{ _id: 5, item: "VWZ2", qty: 180, result: true }