Get the _id of inserted document in Mongo database in NodeJS

Question

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

// ...
collection.         


        

Answer 1

I actually did a console.log() for the second parameter in the callback function for insert. There is actually a lot of information returned apart from the inserted object itself. So the code below explains how you can access it's id.

collection.insert(objToInsert, function (err, result){
    if(err)console.log(err);
    else {
        console.log(result["ops"][0]["_id"]);
        // The above statement will output the id of the 
        // inserted object
       }
});