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bluethundr
bluethundr

Reputation: 1325

Mongodb [js] uncaught exception: SyntaxError: identifier starts immediately after numeric literal

I have a MongoDB collection called: ec2_list-07-26-2020

If I try to do typical operations on it like find() or validate() I get this error:

db.ec2_list-07-26-2020.find()
2020-07-26T20:17:16.845-0400 E  QUERY    [js] uncaught exception: SyntaxError: identifier starts immediately after numeric literal :
@(shell):1:18

So I created a test collection called: audit00. When I do the same on that collection it works fine:

 db.audit00.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5f1e1e02807681425a06fa07"), "writeConcern" : "yes", "ordered" : "True" }

And:

db.audit00.validate()
{
        "ns" : "aws_inventories.audit00",
        "nInvalidDocuments" : NumberLong(0),
        "nrecords" : 1,
        "nIndexes" : 1,
        "keysPerIndex" : {
                "_id_" : 1
        },
        "valid" : true,
        "warnings" : [
                "Some checks omitted for speed. use {full:true} option to do more thorough scan."
        ],
        "errors" : [ ],
        "extraIndexEntries" : [ ],
        "missingIndexEntries" : [ ],
        "ok" : 1
}

Is there something wrong in the way that I'm naming my collections that needs to change?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1937

Answers (1)

fishstick
fishstick

Reputation: 2274

I don't think there is anything wrong with your collection name. It doesn't violate any MongoDB naming restriction.

Following command should work in mongo shell:

const col = db.getCollection("ec2_list-07-26-2020")
col.find()

OR

db["ec2_list-07-26-2020"].find()

Upvotes: 5

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