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Creating ObjectIDs
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What's the use case? Are you looking to generate ObjectIDs for attributes other than _id?
I will have a collection with documents that have subdocuments. Those subdocuments need a unique id that will be tied in a many-to-many relationship in another collection. I can create a GUID, but that is overkill size wise. The MongoDB ObjectID would work perfectly for this.
Actually the objectID method will also generate a random objectID:
function onRequest(request, response, modules){
var id = modules.collectionAccess.objectID();
response.body = {id: id};
response.complete();
}
This function will return a generic objectID.
function onRequest(request, response, modules){
var id = modules.collectionAccess.objectID();
response.body = {id: id};
response.complete();
}
This function will return a generic objectID.
Justin Noel
How can I generate Mongo objectIDs myself.
In Node.js, I'd do the following :
var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;
var myObjectID = new ObjectID();
Kinvey provides the collectionAccess.objectId() method. Unfortunately, this only CONVERTS existing strings to objectIDs. Can y'all rewrite this method so that it generates objectIds if no string is provided?