How can I access a document in a Mongo database using only its _id, with mongo-c-driver? I want to define a function
void *get_doc_by_id(int obj_id) {
// return document if exists
}
First off, keep in mind that an int is not guaranteed to be large enough to hold a MongoDB object id (and in all cases I know of, is not). MongoDB object ids are 96-bit in size and int is typically 32-bits in size.
You might try something like:
/**
* get_doc_by_id:
* @conn: A mongo connection.
* @db_and_collection: The "db.collection" namespace.
* @oid: A bson_oid_t containing the document id.
*
* Fetches a document by the _id field.
*
* Returns: A new bson* that should be freed with bson_destroy() if
* successful; otherwise NULL on failure.
*/
bson *
get_doc_by_id (mongo *conn,
const char *db_and_collection,
const bson_oid_t *oid)
{
bson query;
bson *ret = NULL;
mongo_cursor *cursor;
assert(conn);
assert(db_and_collection);
assert(oid);
bson_init(&query);
bson_append_oid(&query, "_id", oid);
cursor = mongo_find(conn, db_and_collection, &query, NULL, 1, 0, 0);
if (!cursor) {
goto cleanup;
}
if (mongoc_cursor_next(cursor) != MONGO_OK) {
goto cleanup;
}
ret = calloc(1, sizeof *ret);
if (!ret) {
goto cleanup;
}
bson_copy(ret, mongoc_cursor_bson(cursor));
cleanup:
if (cursor) {
mongo_cursor_destroy(cursor);
}
bson_destroy(&query);
return ret;
}