node.js mongodb select document by _id node-mongodb-native

I'm trying to select a document by id

I've tried:

collection.update({ "_id": { "$oid": + theidID } }

collection.update({ "_id": theidID }

collection.update({ "_id.$oid": theidID }}

Also tried:

collection.update({ _id: new ObjectID(theidID ) }

This gives me an error 500...

var mongo = require('mongodb')
var BSON = mongo.BSONPure;
var o_id = new BSON.ObjectID(theidID );

collection.update({ _id: o_id }

None of these work. How to select by _id?

var mongo = require('mongodb');
var o_id = new mongo.ObjectID(theidID);
collection.update({'_id': o_id});

This the approach that worked for me.

var ObjectId = require('mongodb').ObjectID;

var get_by_id = function(id, callback) {
  console.log("find by: "+ id);
  get_collection(function(collection) {
    collection.findOne({"_id": new ObjectId(id)}, function(err, doc) {
       callback(doc);
    });
  });
}

now you can just use this:

var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;
var o_id = new ObjectID("yourObjectIdString");
....
collection.update({'_id': o_id});

You can see documentation here

With native_parser:false:

var BSON = require('mongodb').BSONPure;
var o_id = BSON.ObjectID.createFromHexString(theidID);

With native_parser:true:

var BSON = require('mongodb').BSONNative;
var o_id = BSON.ObjectID.createFromHexString(theidID);