Question

I asked myself, whether javascript (concerning mongoDB) waits for the execution of mongoDB processes.

For example:

Im inserting documents like

for (i=0; i<=myarray.length -1; i++)
{
        db.mycol.insert(myarray[i]);
}

If I check the col status directly after that only see a few documents in the db or even 0. (e.g. instead of 100 only 29 or 0). When I execute the sleep() function with e.g. sleep(10000) I can see all may inserted documents.

So my question is, how can I make sure, that javascript waits for the complete insert? Or how can I measure that? At the moment I’m using

start = new Date().getTime();

for (i=0; i<=myarray.length -1; i++)
{
        db.mycol.insert(myarray[i]);
}
end = new Date().getTime();
time = end - start;

But if the insert-process isn’t completed, the measurement of that function seems senseless to me.

edit:

by using db.getLastError({w:1});

I receive to following error:

uncaught exception: getlasterror failed: {
“singleShard” : “replica2/ip:port,ip:port”,
“n” : 0,
“lastOp” : NumberLong(“5824731790958395692”),
“connectionId” : 111744,
“assertion” : “wrong type for field (w) 3 != 2”,
“assertionCode” : 13111,
“errmsg” : “db assertion failure”,
“ok” : 0
}
failed to load: … myscript.js

Answer 1

If you want to wait until MongoDB has written the data you can call getLastError with whatever options you’re looking to wait for.

Like this:

start = new Date().getTime();
for (i=0; i<=myarray.length -1; i++) {
    db.mycol.insert(myarray[i]);
}
db.getLastError({w:1});
end = new Date().getTime();
time = end - start;