How do I search for an object by its ObjectId in the mongo console?

Question

I\'ve found this question answered for C# and Perl, but not in the native interface. I thought this would work:

db.theColl.find( { _id: ObjectId(\"4ecbe7f9e8c

Answer 1

If you're using Node.js:

> var ObjectId = require('mongodb').ObjectId; 
> var id = req.params.gonderi_id;       
> var o_id = new ObjectId(id);
> db.test.find({_id:o_id})

Edit: corrected to new ObjectId(id), not new ObjectID(id)