Description

{ $count: {} }

{ $sum: 1 }

Description of Linked Ticket

This task is for adding support for $count as an accumulator to the $group stage.

Scope of changes

New accumulator: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregation/#accumulators-group

Make sure we update https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregation/group/#count-the-number-of-documents-in-a-collection as part of this change.

Also:

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/aggregation/count/

Behavior section, current:

db.collection.aggregate( [
   { $group: { _id: null, myCount: { $sum: 1 } } },
   { $project: { _id: 0 } }
] )

Desired:

db.collection.aggregate( [
   { $group: { _id: null, myCount: { $count: {} } } },
   { $project: { _id: 0 } }
] )

Impact to Other Docs

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Resources (Scope or Design Docs, Invision, etc.)