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find and findOne query fails with error

See original GitHub issue

Repro steps:

Connect to a database
Open a scrapbook
Type any of the following queries:
1. db.user.findOne(<key>: <value>)
2. db.user.find(<key>: <value>)
Execute the MongoDB Command

Expect:

VSCode to display the JSON for the document

Actual:

Action: cosmosDB.executeMongoCommand Error type: Error Error Message: Error near line 0, column 23, text ‘:’. Please check syntax.

Environment:

Version: 0.7.2 OS: darwin Insiders Build

Gush:

I love being able to do database stuff in Code, and it’s one of the several things I brag about to other engineers when trying to convert them 😄

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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fiveisprimecommented, Jun 20, 2018

I think you’re just missing some curly braces. Note the error Error near line 0, column 23, text ':'. Please check syntax. the colon is unexpected because the curlies are missing.

db.user.findOne({ <key>: <value> })
db.user.find({ <key>: <value>})

so try db.user.find({ "userId": "6b0ab018-0872-4a19-9698-571a106dd837" })

Find accepts a query object and you’re just passing strings separated by a colon.

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fiveisprimecommented, Jun 20, 2018

Yay! Glad that solved it. 😄 Thanks for following up.

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