MongoDB Node check if objectid is valid

Question

How can I check whether an ObjectID is valid using Node\'s driver

I tried :

var BSON = mongo.BSONPure;
console.log(\"Validity: \"  + BSON.ObjectID.is         


        

Answer 1

isValid() is in the js-bson (objectid.ts) library, which is a dependency of node-mongodb-native.

For whoever finds this question, I don't recommend recreating this method as recommend in other answers. Instead, continue using node-mongodb-native like the original poster was using, the following example will access the isValid() method in js-bson.

var mongodb = require("mongodb");
var objectid = mongodb.BSONPure.ObjectID;

console.log(objectid.isValid('53fbf4615c3b9f41c381b6a3'));

July 2018 update: The current way to do this is:

var mongodb = require("mongodb")
console.log(mongodb.ObjectID.isValid(id))