I am trying to find documents in MongoDB by searching on \"_id\" key. My document looks like this-
{ \"_id\" : ObjectId(\"4f693d40e4b04cde19f17205\"), \"
You can do this
ObjectId id= new ObjectId("4f693d40e4b04cde19f17205"); BasicDBObject obj = new BasicDBObject(); obj.append("_id", id); BasicDBObject query = new BasicDBObject(); query.putAll((BSONObject)query);