Mongodb group and sort

Inspired by this example on mongo’s website.

GENERATE DUMMY DATA:

> db.stack.insert({a:1,b:1,c:1,active:1})
> db.stack.insert({a:1,b:1,c:2,active:0})
> db.stack.insert({a:1,b:2,c:3,active:1})
> db.stack.insert({a:1,b:2,c:2,active:0})
> db.stack.insert({a:2,b:1,c:3,active:1})
> db.stack.insert({a:2,b:1,c:10,active:1})
> db.stack.insert({a:2,b:2,c:10,active:0})
> db.stack.insert({a:2,b:2,c:5,active:1})

MONGO QUERY:

> db.stack.aggregate(
... {$match:{active:1}},
... {$group:{_id:{a:"$a", b:"$b"}, csum:{$sum:"$c"}}},
... {$sort:{"_id.a":1}})

RESULT:

{"result" : [
    {"_id" : {"a" : 1,"b" : 2},"csum" : 3},
    {"_id" : {"a" : 1,"b" : 1},"csum" : 1},
    {"_id" : {"a" : 2,"b" : 2},"csum" : 5},
    {"_id" : {"a" : 2,"b" : 1},"csum" : 13}
],"ok" : 1}

(NOTE: I reformatted the shell result a bit so it is more readable)