Convert ObjectID to String in mongo Aggregation

Question

I\'m in this scenario right now: I have a collection X:

{
  _id:ObjectId(\'56edbb4d5f084a51131dd4c6\'),
  userRef:ObjectId(\'56edbb4d5f084a51131dd4c6\'),
  seria         


        

Answer 1

You can simply use $toString to apply $concat in aggregation on ObjectIDs in the following way -

$group: {
    '_id': {
        '$concat': [
            { '$toString' : '$userRef' },
            '-',
            { '$toString' : '$serialNumber'}
        ]
    },
}