Querying collection with ID

[Shezad Aibara]

I used to be able to query the collection using ID as a string as
{id:'id_of_document'} in v 0.4
After I updated to 0.5 I am not able to query like that. I am able to
query using
{'id':ObjectId('id_of_document')}
Is this a change which happened in the latest version? Is there any
other easy way to do a raw query using ID

[Rozza]

Hi,

Can you give me an example of your use case as I'm not finding this to be the case with 0.5.2 or dev.

The following code passes:

        class Person(Document):

            name = StringField()

            age = IntField()

        Person.drop_collection()

        p = Person(name='Ross')

        p.save()

        self.assertEquals(Person.objects(pk=str(p.id)).count(), 1)

What am I missing?

Ross

[Amorano]

I originally replied to this to say the same thing the OP said,
except, I realized that is how it works.

What is the problem is querying OUTSIDE of ME.

The _id's are not simply "2384892374982349872" but rather
ObjectId("098213409234902834")

So you actually need to put the ObjectId(" part in as well when
searching for raw IDs.

Inconvient sure, but I understand why. You need the RTTI since IDs can
be anything.

Cheers.