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

I was having the same issue here: ObjectID not storing hexadecimal value

It's definitely an issue with environments and something strange with the brew installation of MongoDB. I found that uninstalling from brew and reinstalling manually solved my issue. http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/

While I didn't figure out from a code/technical standpoint why it is returning the 12-byt BSON ObjectID rather than the Hexadecimal ObjectID... uninstalling MongoDB from brew and reinstalling it manually solved the issue.