Order of responses to MongoDB $in query? [duplicate]

Answer 1

@Jason 's answer is the correct one.

About other answers: I wouldn't recommend querying one by one because it can bring serious performance issues.

In addition to @Jason 's answer, it can be optimised using Array.reduce and Array.map methods, like this:

//The order you want
var queryIds = [8, 5, 3, 7];

//The results from MongoDB in an undefined order
var resultsFromMongoDB = [
    {_id: 7, data: "d"},
    {_id: 8, data: "a"},
    {_id: 5, data: "b"},
    {_id: 3, data: "c"}
];

var reorderedResults = naturalOrderResults(resultsFromMongoDB, queryIds);


function naturalOrderResults(resultsFromMongoDB, queryIds) {
    //Let's build the hashmap
    var hashOfResults = resultsFromMongoDB.reduce(function (prev, curr) {
        prev[curr._id] = curr;
        return prev;
    }, {});

    return queryIds.map( function(id) { return hashOfResults[id] } );
}