Why new documents in mongo have an object and not an ObjectId?

Question

When inserting new documents in mongodb, ids don\'t look like ObjectId and instead they look like an object.

\"_id\" : {
        \"_bsontype\" : \"ObjectID\"         


        

Answer 1

The malformed ObjectIds are caused by a conflict with the mongoose version that mongoose-q is using. You'll need to update to mongoose-q to version 0.1.0. I was using 0.0.17 previously and saw exactly the same behavior that you saw here.