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

File: documentdb/latest/developerguide/slice.md

Summary

Removed entire documentation page for the $slice aggregation operator, including all examples, code snippets, and explanatory content

Security assessment

This change appears to be a routine documentation cleanup or restructuring, removing an entire page about the $slice operator functionality. There is no evidence in the diff of any security vulnerability being addressed, no mention of security issues, and no security-related content being added. The removed content was purely functional documentation about a MongoDB aggregation operator.

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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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-# $slice
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-The `$slice` aggregation operator enables you to return a subset of an array by either traversing the array from the beginning or the end of the array. This is used to display a limited number of items from an array field, such as the top or bottom N items.
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-**Parameters**
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-  * `array`: The array field to be sliced.
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-  * `n`: An integer that specifies the number of elements to return. A positive value starts from the beginning of the array, while a negative value starts from the end of the array.
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-## Example (MongoDB Shell)
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-The following example demonstrates how to use `$slice` to return the first two favorite sweets for each chef.
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-**Create sample documents**
-    
-    
-    db.sweets.insertMany([
-      { "_id" : 1, "name" : "Alvin", "favorites": [ "chocolate", "cake", "toffee", "beignets" ] },
-      { "_id" : 2, "name" : "Tom", "favorites": [ "donuts", "pudding", "pie" ] },
-      { "_id" : 3, "name" : "Jessica", "favorites": [ "fudge", "smores", "pudding", "cupcakes" ] },
-      { "_id" : 4, "name" : "Rachel", "favorites": [ "ice cream" ] }
-    ]);
-
-**Query example**
-    
-    
-    db.sweets.aggregate([
-      { $project: { _id: 0, name: 1, topTwoFavorites: { $slice: [ "$favorites", 2 ] } } }
-    ]);
-
-**Output**
-    
-    
-    [
-      { name: 'Alvin', topTwoFavorites: [ 'chocolate', 'cake' ] },
-      { name: 'Tom', topTwoFavorites: [ 'donuts', 'pudding' ] },
-      { name: 'Jessica', topTwoFavorites: [ 'fudge', 'smores' ] },
-      { name: 'Rachel', topTwoFavorites: [ 'ice cream' ] }
-    ]
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-In this example, the `$slice` operator is used to extract the first two elements from the `favorites` array for each document.
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-## Code examples
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-To view a code example for using the `$slice` 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 client = await MongoClient.connect('mongodb://<username>:<password>@<cluster-endpoint>:27017/?tls=true&tlsCAFile=global-bundle.pem&replicaSet=rs0&readPreference=secondaryPreferred&retryWrites=false');
-      const db = client.db('test');
-      const collection = db.collection('sweets');
-    
-      const result = await collection.aggregate([
-        { $project: { name: 1, topTwoFavorites: { $slice: ['$favorites', 2] } } }
-      ]).toArray();
-    
-      console.log(result);
-      await client.close();
-    }
-    
-    example();
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-Python
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-    
-    
-    from pymongo import MongoClient
-    
-    def example():
-        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['sweets']
-    
-        result = list(collection.aggregate([
-            { '$project': { 'name': 1, 'topTwoFavorites': { '$slice': ['$favorites', 2] } } }
-        ]))
-    
-        print(result)
-        client.close()
-    
-    example()
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-[Document Conventions](/general/latest/gr/docconventions.html)
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