Using another field as _id

[Ahmed Nasser]

Hello,

We need to be able to use another field of the document (ex:Email) as
the ID of the collection. Mongo supports using the natural identifier
as the ID instead of the generated Mongo ID.

In Mandango, we were able to change the DBName of the "Email" field to
be _id. However, this does not function correctly as the setId method
of the Document expects a MongoID object.

Is there anyway to specify a field of the collection to be the _id in
Mandango?


Thanks,
Ahmed.

[Pablo Díez]

The `setId` method of the `Document` class does not expect an instance of `MongoId`, it can be any value.

https://github.com/mandango/mandango/blob/master/src/Mandango/Document/Document.php#L47

You can use any of these id generators:

https://github.com/mandango/mandango/tree/master/src/Mandango/Id

Some examples:

https://github.com/mandango/mandango/blob/master/tests/config_classes.php#L353

https://github.com/mandango/mandango/blob/master/tests/config_classes.php#L365

Cheers,

Pablo

[Ahmed Nasser]

Yes, sorry, We were looking at the tag version (old version). Will give it a try on the latest version. Thanks a lot for your help.

Ahmed.