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Type:
Improvement
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Resolution: Done
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Priority:
Minor - P4
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Affects Version/s: 2.6.1
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Component/s: Tools
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Minor Change
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Server 2.7.3
A customer reports that it is not very convenient for mongoexport --csv to output ObjectID as a type, while it is not a valid string in the Mongo shell, which accepts ObjectId.
[ec2-user@host]$ mongoexport --db app --collection data -q '{"date.v": {$lt : new Date(1)}}' --csv --fields '_id' -o -
_id
ObjectID(518d83ba89a92bb3057252eb)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001eac)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001ea4)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001e8c)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001e94)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001e9c)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001eb4)
ObjectID(525b23207ca1bb3f0c001e84)
mongos> db.app.coveredassets.find({_id: new ObjectID("518d83ba89a92bb3057252eb")}).pretty()
2014-06-13T19:52:04.561+0000 ReferenceError: ObjectID is not defined
mongos> db.app.coveredassets.find({_id: new ObjectId("518d83ba89a92bb3057252eb")}).pretty()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("518d83ba89a92bb3057252eb"),
...
}