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AWS documentdb documentation change

Service: documentdb · 2026-03-28 · Documentation low

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/first.md

Summary

Removed entire documentation page for the $first aggregation operator in Amazon DocumentDB, including all examples and code samples

Security assessment

This change removes documentation content entirely without any indication of security vulnerabilities, patches, or security-related updates. The removed content appears to be standard operator documentation with example code that includes standard connection strings with placeholder credentials. There is no evidence of addressing a specific security vulnerability or weakness in the removed content.

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-[Documentation](/index.html)[Amazon DocumentDB](/documentdb/index.html)[Developer Guide](what-is.html)
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-Example (MongoDB Shell)Code examples
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-# $first
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-New from version 5.0.
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-Not supported by Elastic cluster.
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-The `$first` operator in Amazon DocumentDB returns the first document from a grouped set of documents. It is commonly used in aggregation pipelines to retrieve the first document that matches a specific condition.
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-**Parameters**
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-  * `expression`: The expression to return as the first value in each group.
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-## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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-The following example demonstrates the use of the `$first` operator to retrieve the first item value encountered for each category during the aggregation.
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-Note: `$first` returns the first document based on the current order of documents in the pipeline. To ensure a specific order (e.g., by date, price, etc.), a `$sort` stage should be used before the `$group` stage.
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-**Create sample documents**
-    
-    
-    db.products.insertMany([
-      { _id: 1, item: "abc", price: 10, category: "food" },
-      { _id: 2, item: "jkl", price: 20, category: "food" },
-      { _id: 3, item: "xyz", price: 5, category: "toy" },
-      { _id: 4, item: "abc", price: 5, category: "toy" }
-    ]);
-
-**Query example**
-    
-    
-    db.products.aggregate([
-      { $group: { _id: "$category", firstItem: { $first: "$item" } } }
-    ]);
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-**Output**
-    
-    
-    [
-      { "_id" : "food", "firstItem" : "abc" },
-      { "_id" : "toy", "firstItem" : "xyz" }
-    ]
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-## Code examples
-
-To view a code example for using the `$first` command, choose the tab for the language that you want to use:
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-Node.js
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-    
-    
-    const { MongoClient } = require('mongodb');
-    
-    async function example() {
-      const uri = 'mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false';
-      const client = new MongoClient(uri);
-    
-      try {
-        await client.connect();
-    
-        const db = client.db('test');
-        const collection = db.collection('products');
-    
-        const result = await collection.aggregate([
-          { $group: { _id: "$category", firstItem: { $first: "$item" } } }
-        ]).toArray();
-    
-        console.log(result);
-    
-      } catch (error) {
-        console.error('Error:', error);
-      } finally {
-        await client.close();
-      }
-    }
-    
-    example();
-
-Python
-    
-    
-    
-    from pymongo import MongoClient
-    from pprint import pprint
-    
-    def example():
-        client = None
-        try:
-            client = MongoClient('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false')
-    
-            db = client['test']
-            collection = db['products']
-    
-            result = list(collection.aggregate([
-                { '$group': { '_id': '$category', 'firstItem': { '$first': '$item' } } }
-            ]))
-    
-            pprint(result)
-    
-        except Exception as e:
-            print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
-    
-        finally:
-            if client:
-                client.close()
-    
-    example()
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-[Document Conventions](/general/latest/gr/docconventions.html)
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