object ID and Compass

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Liz Hall

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Apr 21, 2017, 4:39:42 PM4/21/17

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All,

i'm trying to find a document by object ID.

this does not work. What am I doing wrong?

{ "$oid": "589a8205e4b04157be388130" }

Rhys Campbell

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Apr 23, 2017, 11:19:02 AM4/23/17

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Your value for ObjectID is a string not an ObjectID. This will never match. You need to do tis...

{ "$oid": ObjectId("589a8205e4b04157be388130") }

Kevin Adistambha

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Apr 24, 2017, 3:48:47 AM4/24/17

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Hi Liz,

I understand you are using Compass. I believe you are using MongoDB extended JSON correctly with your $oid query. However, Compass still requires you to specify the _id field, e.g.:

{"_id": { "$oid": "589a8205e4b04157be388130" }  }

As Compass’ query bar is observing a strict JSON format, please ensure that all field names are surrounded by the double quote character.