How to query documents using "_id" field in Java mongodb driver?
I am trying to find documents in MongoDB by searching on "_id" key. My document looks like this-
{
"_id" : ObjectId("4f693d40e4b04cde19f17205"),
"hostname" : "hostnameGoesHere",
"OSType" : "OSTypeGoesHere"
}
I am trying to search this document as-
ObjectId id= new ObjectId("4f693d40e4b04cde19f17205");
BasicDBObject obj = new BasicDBObject();
obj.append("_id", id);
BasicDBObject query = new BasicDBObject();
query.putAll(query);
But I get below error-
error: reference to putAll is ambiguous, both method putAll(Map) in BasicBSONObject and method putAll(BSONObject) in BasicBSONObject match
query.putAll(query);
The append method of BasicDBObject supports (String Key, Value) and if I pass "_id" as String to this method, no documents are matched.
So my question is how do I pass "_id"?
Not sure if others might be searching for answers on this topic, but here is the easiest way to search for a MongoDB record based on "_id". The MongoDB documentation is not updated and still shows ObjectId as being part of the com.mongodb
package (it also generally does not give a lot of information on searching by ObjectId).
import org.bson.types.ObjectId;
public DBObject findDocumentById(String id) {
BasicDBObject query = new BasicDBObject();
query.put("_id", new ObjectId(id));
DBObject dbObj = collection.findOne(query);
return dbObj;
}
For those who are seeking a more up to date method, especially with 3.4:
import com.mongodb.client.MongoCollection;
import com.mongodb.client.MongoDatabase;
import org.bson.Document;
import org.bson.types.ObjectId;
import static com.mongodb.client.model.Filters.eq;
//......
MongoCollection<Document> myCollection = database.getCollection("myCollection");
Document document = myCollection.find(eq("_id", new ObjectId("4f693d40e4b04cde19f17205"))).first();
if (document == null) {
//Document does not exist
} else {
//We found the document
}
You can do this
ObjectId id= new ObjectId("4f693d40e4b04cde19f17205");
BasicDBObject obj = new BasicDBObject();
obj.append("_id", id);
BasicDBObject query = new BasicDBObject();
query.putAll((BSONObject)query);
Solved it by using query as-
query.putAll((BSONObject)query);