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MarcJames
MarcJames

Reputation: 189

Meteor update Mongo Doc by ID

I'm trying to update a Mongo record via Chrome's console.

Posts.update('hexidhere', {$set: {title: 'something text here'}});

The problem is with docs that were created a Mongo terminal. They were assigned an id like so (_str and _proto are nested inside the _id):

_id: LocalCollection._ObjectID
_str: '54ff06801ad15adbb3d1090'
_proto: LocalCollection._ObjectId   
title: 'dummy title here'

When I added another test doc via chrome's console (not a mongo terminal) It seems to have added an ID correctly, and everything works as expected:

_id: 'EtPt9ntXtxG4qo9Tb'  
title: 'dummy title here'

My question is: Does anyone know a way to make the ID always be simple HexStrings (like in the second example), or is there a correct method for accessing the nested str value in the LocalCollection (I've tried Mongo.ObjectID('hexidhere'), 'theidhere', and a whole bunch of other stuff)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 640

Answers (1)

Matt K
Matt K

Reputation: 4948

Mongo likes to use ObjectId for _id, Meteor opted to use String. To learn more see the now deprecated google groups convo: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meteor-talk/f-ljBdZOwPk

To get the string of an ObjectId use the str method as in ObjectId("310458asdf323452").str See here for more info: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/object-id/

Upvotes: 1

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