Mongodb “$ “Operator Problem

  mongodb, question

Test data:

{ "_id" : ObjectId("4b97e62bf1d8c7152c9ccb74"), "title" : 
"ABC", 
  "comments" : [ { "by" : "joe", "votes" : 3 }, { "by" : "jane", 
"votes" : 7 } ] }

Execute update statement:

Statement 1:

db.mydb.update({title:"ABC"}, {$inc:{"comments.$.votes":1}}, 0, 1)

Execute error reporting:Cannot apply the positional operator without a corresponding query field containing an array.

Statement 2:

db.mydb.update({"comments.by":"joe"}, {$inc:{"comments.$.votes":1}}, 0, 1)

The execution result is normal.

What’s going on?

 "comments" : [ { "by" : "joe", "votes" : 3 }, { "by" : "jane", 
"votes" : 7 } ]

Comments here is an array (see error message), which needs to be traversed if it is to be updated.