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

@GianPaJ's snippet is great but it needs to be extended slightly to cover non hex objectID's. Line 32 of the same file indicates objectID's can also be 12 characters in length. These keys are converted to a 24 character hex ObjectID by the mongodb driver.

function isValidObjectID(str) {
  // coerce to string so the function can be generically used to test both strings and native objectIds created by the driver
  str = str + '';
  var len = str.length, valid = false;
  if (len == 12 || len == 24) {
    valid = /^[0-9a-fA-F]+$/.test(str);
  }
  return valid;
}