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cursor.showRecordId()

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cursor.showRecordId()

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for a language-specific driver, such as Node.js.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.

Appends the $recordId field to documents returned by a query. $recordId is the internal key that uniquely identifies a document in a collection. $recordId format:

'$recordId': Long(<int>)
Returns:A modified cursor object that contains the document fields and the appended $recordId field.

This method is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

  • MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud

Note

This command is supported in all MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on Atlas support for all commands, see Unsupported Commands.

  • MongoDB Enterprise: The subscription-based, self-managed version of MongoDB

  • MongoDB Community: The source-available, free-to-use, and self-managed version of MongoDB

The example uses this pizzas collection:

db.pizzas.insertMany( [
{ type: "pepperoni", size: "small", price: 4 },
{ type: "cheese", size: "medium", price: 7 },
{ type: "vegan", size: "large", price: 8 }
] )

The following find() example uses showRecordId() to append the $recordId to the pizza document fields in the output:

db.pizzas.find().showRecordId()

Example output:

[
{
_id: ObjectId("62ffc70660b33b68e8f30435"),
type: 'pepperoni',
size: 'small',
price: 4,
'$recordId': Long("1")
},
{
_id: ObjectId("62ffc70660b33b68e8f30436"),
type: 'cheese',
size: 'medium',
price: 7,
'$recordId': Long("2")
},
{
_id: ObjectId("62ffc70660b33b68e8f30437"),
type: 'vegan',
size: 'large',
price: 8,
'$recordId': Long("3")
}
]

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