How to find a document by using its name using MongoC

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JAED

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Mar 14, 2018, 5:15:12 PM3/14/18

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Hello,

I am currently using MongoC library and I need to find a document that was created previously. I know the name of this document and I would like to retrieve the document by using its name.

Is this possible with functions like "mongoc_collection_find" ? How do I need to set the arguments?

Is there another function capable of finding a document by passing database name, collection name and document name as arguments?

Thanks.

Regards.

Wan Bachtiar

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Mar 18, 2018, 10:06:37 PM3/18/18

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Is this possible with functions like “mongoc_collection_find” ? How do I need to set the arguments?

Hi Jaed,

To get started, I would recommend to follow the MongoDB C Driver Tutorial. Especially on the section Finding a Document.

The tutorial contains an example as below:

//  Look for all documents matching {"hello" : "world"}.
query = bson_new ();
BSON_APPEND_UTF8 (query, "hello", "world");
cursor = mongoc_collection_find_with_opts (collection, query, NULL, NULL);