Can I determine if a string is a MongoDB ObjectID?

Question

I am doing MongoDB lookups by converting a string to BSON. Is there a way for me to determine if the string I have is a valid ObjectID for Mongo before doing the conversion?

Answer 1

For mongoose , Use isValid() function to check if objectId is valid or not

Example :

var ObjectId = mongoose.Types.ObjectId;
if(ObjectId.isValid(req.params.documentId)){
   console.log('Object id is valid'); 
}else{
   console.log('Invalid Object id');
}