How do I use a guid in a mongodb shell query - shell

Question

When using the MongoDB shell, how do I use a guid datatype (which I have used as the _id in my collection).
The following format doesn't work:
>db.person.find({"_id","E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF"});
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use easily:
.find({ "_id" : CSUUID("E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF")})

Answer 2

You have to compare the _id value against an instance of BinData (not against a string). Unfortunately the BinData constructor takes a Base64 string instead of a hex string.
Your GUID value is missing two hex digits at the end, so for the purposes of this example I will assume they are "00". The following values are equivalent:
hex: "E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF00" (ignoring dashes)
base64: "ZlXk4+SvZKV4dq7/Z0X/AA=="
So your query should be:
>db.person.find({_id : new BinData(3, "ZlXk4+SvZKV4dq7/Z0X/AA==")})
I am assuming that the binary subtype was correctly set to 3. If not, what driver was used to create the data?

Answer 3

You could use the following js function in front of your query like so:
function LUUID(uuid) {
var hex = uuid.replace(/[{}-]/g, ""); // removes extra characters
return new UUID(hex); //creates new UUID
}
db.person.find({"_id" : LUUID("E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF"});
You could save the function in .js file and load it or open it before you make your query and if you copy the value from your results you should rename the function with:
LUUID for Legacy UUID
JUUID for Java encoding
NUUID for .net encoding
CSUUID for c# encoding
PYUUID for python encoding

Answer 4

I know it's an old issue, but without any additional needs you can use this one:
find({_id:UUID('af64ab4f-1098-458a-a0a3-f0f6c93530b7')})

Answer 5

You can fix this issue by using split() and join() workaround:
for instance if I use "E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF" hex value with - inside UUID() function, it does not return BinData in mongo so please try removing all the - before passing to UUID function.
db.person.find({"_id":UUID("E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF".split("-").join(''))});
Or by defining a variable to do it in multiple line:
var uuid = UUID("E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF".split("-").join(''))
db.person.find({"_id":uuid});
or by creating a simple function:
function BUUID(uuid){
var str = uuid.split("-").join('');
return new UUID(str);
}
db.person.find({"_id": BUUID("E3E45566-AFE4-A564-7876-AEFF6745FF")}).pretty();