I use NodeJS to insert documents in MongoDB. Using collection.insert I can insert a document into database like in this code:
// ...
collection.insert(objectToInsert, function(err){
if (err) return;
// Object inserted successfully.
var objectId; // = ???
});
// ...
How can I get the _id of inserted object?
Is there any way to get the _id without getting latest object inserted _id?
Supposing that in same time a lot of people access the database, I can’t be sure that the latest id is the id of object inserted.
There is a second parameter for the callback for collection.insert that will return the doc or docs inserted, which should have _ids.
Try:
collection.insert(objectToInsert, function(err,docsInserted){
console.log(docsInserted);
});
and check the console to see what I mean.
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A shorter way than using second parameter for the callback of collection.insert would be using objectToInsert._id that returns the _id (inside of the callback function, supposing it was a successful operation).
The Mongo driver for NodeJS appends the _id field to the original object reference, so it’s easy to get the inserted id using the original object:
collection.insert(objectToInsert, function(err){
if (err) return;
// Object inserted successfully.
var objectId = objectToInsert._id; // this will return the id of object inserted
});
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As ktretyak said, to get inserted document’s ID best way is to use insertedId property on result object. In my case result._id didn’t work so I had to use following:
db.collection("collection-name")
.insertOne(document)
.then(result => {
console.log(result.insertedId);
})
.catch(err => {
// handle error
});
It’s the same thing if you use callbacks.
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I actually did a console.log() for the second parameter in the callback function for insert. There is actually a lot of information returned apart from the inserted object itself. So the code below explains how you can access it’s id.
collection.insert(objToInsert, function (err, result){
if(err)console.log(err);
else {
console.log(result["ops"][0]["_id"]);
// The above statement will output the id of the
// inserted object
}
});
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Mongo sends the complete document as a callbackobject so you can simply get it from there only.
for example
collection.save(function(err,room){
var newRoomId = room._id;
});
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Now you can use insertOne method and in promise’s result.insertedId
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@JSideris, sample code for getting insertedId.
db.collection(COLLECTION).insertOne(data, (err, result) => {
if (err)
return err;
else
return result.insertedId;
});
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if you want to take “_id” use simpley
result.insertedId.toString()
// toString will convert from hex
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You could use async functions to get _id field automatically without manipulating data object:
async function save() {
const data = {
name: "John"
}
await db.collection('users', data )
return data
}
Returns data:
{
_id: '5dbff150b407cc129ab571ca',
name: 'John'
}