Error: the update operation document must contain atomic operators, when running updateOne

Question

In my collection, there is only one document.

> db.c20160712.find()
{ \"_id\" : ObjectId(\"57ab909791c3b3a393e9e277\"), \"Dimension_id\" : 2, \"Attribute\         


        

Answer 1

I believe this was changed as a side-effect of introducing the updateOne() method in addition to update() and updateMany() as somewhat of a safeguard to prevent user's from accidentally overriding an entire document.

You can use the replaceOne() method instead, or an update() without specifying multi:true.

Answer 2

You did the same mistake as I did. Upon going through the docs I realized the syntax is wrong. Try:

db.c20160712.updateOne( 
   { "Attribute" : "good"}, 
   {"Type" : "DVD", "Title" : "Matrix, The", "Released" : 1999, "Genre" : "Action"}, 
   { upsert: true} 
)

Answer 3

You should use this code because I was also facing the same problem and then I used this code:

updateOne(
    { _id: new ObjectID(req.params.id) },
    { $set: { title: req.body.bookName, author: req.body.authorName } },
    { upsert: true }
)

and you should also define ObjectID otherwise the problem will occur again.

const ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;

Answer 4

Wrong syntax for the second parameter. Please check the docs. It should be:

db.c20160712.updateOne(
    { "Attribute" : "good" }, 
    { $set: {"Type" : "DVD", "Title" : "Matrix, The", "Released" : 1999, "Genre" : "Action" } },
    { upsert: true }
);