Remove Empty Objects in an Object Array using MongoDB Query

You can use $pull operator for this. Let us first create a collection with documents. Here, we have also added an empty object −

> db.removeEmptyObjectsDemo.insertOne(
   {
      "_id" :101,
      "LoginDate" :new ISODate(),
      "UserDetails" : [
         {
            "UserName" : "John"
         },
         {
         },
         {
            "UserName" : "Sam"
         }
      ]
   }
);
{ "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 101 }

Following is the query to display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −

> db.removeEmptyObjectsDemo.find().pretty();

This will produce the following output −

{
   "_id" : 101,
   "LoginDate" : ISODate("2019-05-25T04:46:29.505Z"),
   "UserDetails" : [
      {
         "UserName" : "John"
      },
      {
      },
      {
         "UserName" : "Sam"
      }
   ]
}

Following is the query to remove empty objects in an object-array −

> db.removeEmptyObjectsDemo.update(
{},
{ "$pull": { "UserDetails": { "UserName": { "$exists": false } } } },
{ "multi": true }
);
WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 1 })

Let us check the documents from the above collection −

> db.removeEmptyObjectsDemo.find().pretty();

This will produce the following output. The empty object removed successfully −

{
   "_id" : 101,
   "LoginDate" : ISODate("2019-05-25T04:46:29.505Z"),
   "UserDetails" : [
      {
         "UserName" : "John"
      },
      {
         "UserName" : "Sam"
      }
   ]
}