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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-2769

Provide a way to find out if $addToSet caused a change to the list

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    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Priority: Icon: Minor - P4 Minor - P4
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      Using $addToSet there is no way to find if the add changed the list. I would have though that the updatedExisting field in getLastError would reflect if a change was made or not but it doesn't seem to do that.

      > db.set.insert(

      { set : ['1','2','3'], _id : "123" }

      );
      > db.set.update({_id:"123"},{"$addToSet":{ set: '4'}}); db.runCommand("getlasterror");

      { "err" : null, "updatedExisting" : true, "n" : 1, "ok" : 1 }

      > db.set.update({_id:"123"},{"$addToSet":{ set: '4'}}); db.runCommand("getlasterror");
      { "err" : null, "updatedExisting" : true, "n" : 1, "ok" : 1

      I'm not sure what the best option here is but it would be very useful to know.

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            Reporter:
            bdarfler Benjamin Darfler
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