Get the _id of inserted document in Mongo database in NodeJS

Question

I use NodeJS to insert documents in MongoDB. Using collection.insert I can insert a document into database like in this code:

// ...
collection.         


        

Answer 1

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;
  });

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

@JSideris, sample code for getting insertedId.

db.collection(COLLECTION).insertOne(data, (err, result) => {
    if (err) 
      return err;
    else 
      return result.insertedId;
  });

Answer 4

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.