Convert existing MongoDB string attribute to BSON::ObjectId

问题

I have a collection of documents in MongoDB that has an attribute being stored as a string when it would work better if it was saved as BSON::ObjectId.

The collection name is foo and the field is called bar. What's the best way to have every field bar turn its existing value into an instance of BSON::ObjectId?

回答1:

Is this what you mean? (You have a string that is the hex of an ObjectId, and you want to turn it into an ObjectId)

> db.foo.insert({bar:new ObjectId().str});
> db.foo.insert({bar:new ObjectId().str});
> db.foo.insert({bar:new ObjectId().str});
> db.foo.find();
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e00d9060633ce7fbab94"), "bar" : "4f95e00d9060633ce7fbab93" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e0119060633ce7fbab96"), "bar" : "4f95e0119060633ce7fbab95" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e0119060633ce7fbab98"), "bar" : "4f95e0119060633ce7fbab97" }
> db.foo.find().forEach(function(doc) { db.foo.update({_id:doc._id},{$set:{bar:new ObjectId(doc.bar)}}); });
> db.foo.find();
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e00d9060633ce7fbab94"), "bar" : ObjectId("4f95e00d9060633ce7fbab93") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e0119060633ce7fbab96"), "bar" : ObjectId("4f95e0119060633ce7fbab95") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e0119060633ce7fbab98"), "bar" : ObjectId("4f95e0119060633ce7fbab97") }

Or is this what you mean? (You have a string but you want to blow it away and create a new ObjectId in its place)

> db.foo.insert({bar:"some string id"});
> db.foo.insert({bar:"some string id2"});
> db.foo.insert({bar:"some string id3"});
> db.foo.find();
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e1779060633ce7fbaba5"), "bar" : "some string id" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e1799060633ce7fbaba6"), "bar" : "some string id2" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e17b9060633ce7fbaba7"), "bar" : "some string id3" }
> db.foo.find().forEach(function(doc) { db.foo.update({_id:doc._id},{$set:{bar:new ObjectId()}}); });
> db.foo.find();
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e1779060633ce7fbaba5"), "bar" : ObjectId("4f95e1819060633ce7fbaba8") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e1799060633ce7fbaba6"), "bar" : ObjectId("4f95e1819060633ce7fbaba9") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("4f95e17b9060633ce7fbaba7"), "bar" : ObjectId("4f95e1819060633ce7fbabaa") }

回答2:

I don't think you can change an objects ID, but you can do something like this:

db.whatevers.find().forEach(function(x) {
   x.oldId = x._id; // this can be handy :)
   x._id = new ObjectID();
   db.whatevers.insert(x);
})

db.whatevers.remove({oldId:{$exists:false}}};

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10287947/convert-existing-mongodb-string-attribute-to-bsonobjectid

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