Question

This is a similar question to $and query returns no result, however the answer there does not apply in this case.

I have the following query:

{
  $and: [
    {
      ownerId: "505b832c975a5c3ca6e9523b"
    },
    {
      privacyLevel: "Public"
    }
  ]
}

My collection has 16 documents, all of which are “Public” and 7 of which have the ownerId above. The subqueries behave correctly and return the correct documents so I would expect 7 results from this query.

The $and query returns nothing, I am at a loss as to why that might be.

Answer 1

If you are just querying two fields you do not need an $and operator. Your query will simply be:

.find({ownerId: "505b832c975a5c3ca6e9523b", privacyLevel: "Public"})