ObjectID is automatically generated by the database drivers, and will be assigned to the _id field of each document. ObjectID can be considered globally unique for all practical purposes. ObjectID encodes the timestamp of its creation time, which may be used for queries or to sort by creation time.
The find_One() method of pymongo is used to retrieve a single document based on your query, in case of no matches this method returns nothing and if you doesn't use any query it returns the first document of the collection.
To get last inserted document, use sort() along with limit(1).
One of the cool things about MongoDB is that the ids are generated client side.
This means you don't even have to ask the server what the id was, because you told it what to save in the first place. Using pymongo the return value of an insert will be the object id. Check it out:
>>> import pymongo
>>> collection = pymongo.Connection()['test']['tyler']
>>> _id = collection.insert({"name": "tyler"})
>>> print _id.inserted_id
4f0b2f55096f7622f6000000
The answer from Tyler does not work for me. Using _id.inserted_id works
>>> import pymongo
>>> collection = pymongo.Connection()['test']['tyler']
>>> _id = collection.insert({"name": "tyler"})
>>> print(_id)
<pymongo.results.InsertOneResult object at 0x0A7EABCD>
>>> print(_id.inserted_id)
5acf02400000000968ba447f
It's better to use insert_one() or insert_many() instead of insert(). Those two are for the newer version. You can use inserted_id to get the id.
myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
myDB = myclient["myDB"]
userTable = myDB["Users"]
userDict={"name": "tyler"}
_id = userTable.insert_one(userDict).inserted_id
print(_id)
Or
result = userTable.insert_one(userDict)
print(result.inserted_id)
print(result.acknowledged)
If you need to use insert(), you should write like the lines below
_id = userTable.insert(userDict)
print(_id)
Newer PyMongo versions depreciate insert
, and instead insert_one
or insert_many
should be used. These functions return a pymongo.results.InsertOneResult
or pymongo.results.InsertManyResult
object.
With these objects you can use the .inserted_id
and .inserted_ids
properties respectively to get the inserted object ids.
See this link for more info on insert_one
and insert_many
and this link for more info on pymongo.results.InsertOneResult
.
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