Question

I have a script like this:

use first_db;

advertisers = db.agencies.find( 'my query which returns things correctly );

close first_db;
use second_db;

db.advertisers.insert(advertisers);

and I get this exception:

Tue Jun  5 14:15:07 TypeError: advertisers.toJSON is not a function (shell):1

What am I supposed to do? Change the original result to json and then insert it? or is there some function i need to use?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Your problem is that find() returns a cursor, not the actual data. You need to iterate over the results in the cursor and store them in a variable.

Try taking a look at the these places in the manual: find() and cursors.