How do I search for an object by its ObjectId in the mongo console?

Question

I\'ve found this question answered for C# and Perl, but not in the native interface. I thought this would work:

db.theColl.find( { _id: ObjectId(\"4ecbe7f9e8c

Answer 1

Once you opened the mongo CLI, connected and authorized on the right database.

The following example shows how to find the document with the _id=568c28fffc4be30d44d0398e from a collection called “products”:

db.products.find({"_id": ObjectId("568c28fffc4be30d44d0398e")})

Answer 2

I think you better write something like this:

db.getCollection('Blog').find({"_id":ObjectId("58f6724e97990e9de4f17c23")})

Answer 3

You Have missed to insert Double Quotes. The Exact Query is

db.theColl.find( { "_id": ObjectId("4ecbe7f9e8c1c9092c000027") } )

Answer 4

If you're using Node.js:

> var ObjectId = require('mongodb').ObjectId; 
> var id = req.params.gonderi_id;       
> var o_id = new ObjectId(id);
> db.test.find({_id:o_id})

Edit: corrected to new ObjectId(id), not new ObjectID(id)

Answer 5

If you are working on the mongo shell, Please refer this : Answer from Tyler Brock

I wrote the answer if you are using mongodb using node.js

You don't need to convert the id into an ObjectId. Just use :

db.collection.findById('4ecbe7f9e8c1c9092c000027');

this collection method will automatically convert id into ObjectId.

On the other hand :

db.collection.findOne({"_id":'4ecbe7f9e8c1c9092c000027'}) doesn't work as expected. You've manually convert id into ObjectId.

That can be done like this :

let id = '58c85d1b7932a14c7a0a320d';

let o_id = new ObjectId(id);   // id as a string is passed

db.collection.findOne({"_id":o_id});

Answer 6

In MongoDB Stitch functions it can be done using BSON like below:

Use the ObjectId helper in the BSON utility package for this purpose like in the follwing example:

var id = "5bb9e9f84186b222c8901149";  
BSON.ObjectId(id);