Question

I usually manipulate object by creating them unique “codes”. (So I create an object with the code “test” and fetch the object back using objects.find({ code: "test" }). But I find this weird and counter-productive.

I’d like to know if it’s possible to simply create a new object, and get its saved object or simply its ObjectId back once saved?

That would be nice if we could do this:
objects.save({ name: “Test Object” });

And get { ObjectId: "47cc67093475061e3d95369d", name: "Test Object" } in return.

Is there any way to do so?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Is this what you’re looking for?

> var record = {hello:"goodbye"};
> db.test.save(record);
> record;
{ "hello" : "goodbye", "_id" : ObjectId("4f90c9106aee6e21b4e55c65") }