How to get the id of inserted document in Mongo database in NodeJS

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I use NodeJS to insert documents in MongoDB. Using collection.insert I can insert a document into database like in this code:

// ...
collection.insert(objectToInsert, function(err){
   if (err) return;
   // Object inserted successfully.
   var objectId; // = ???
});
// ...

How can I get the _id of inserted object?

Is there any way to get the _id without getting latest object inserted _id?

Sep 7, 2020 in Node-js by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

A shorter way than using second parameter for the callback of collection.insert would be using objectToInsert._id that returns the _id (inside of the callback function, supposing it was a successful operation).

The Mongo driver for NodeJS appends the _id field to the original object reference, so it's easy to get the inserted id using the original object:

collection.insert(objectToInsert, function(err){
   if (err) return;
   // Object inserted successfully.
   var objectId = objectToInsert._id; // this will return the id of object inserted
});

Hope it helps!!

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answered Sep 7, 2020 by Niroj
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