Mongo DB error: invalid operator: $search when doing $text search

Question

I've created an index with this:

db.MyCollection.ensureIndex({"field1": "text"})

and I'm running the following in Robomongo:

db.MyCollection.find({$text:{$search:"something"}})

and getting back this error:

error: { "$err" : "invalid operator: $search", "code" : 10068 }

The docs seem to be pretty clear that I'm using the correct syntax: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/query/text/ . I'm using mongo version 2.4.9. Anyone know what the problem could be here?

Answer 1

In mongo 2.6+ $text works as follows:

db.collection.insert({desc: "This is a string with text"});
db.collection.insert({desc:"This is a another string with Text"});
db.collection.insert({desc:"This is a another string with ext"});
db.collection.ensureIndex({"desc":"text"});
db.collection.find({
    $text:{
        $search:"text"
    }
}); 

This will gives output as :

{ "_id" : ObjectId("553277a608b85f33165bf3e0"),
 "desc" : "This is a another string with Text" }

{ "_id" : ObjectId("5532779f08b85f33165bf3df"), 
"desc" : "This is a string with text" }

Also if you are using mongo version 2.4 then use following:

 db.collection.ensureIndex({"desc":"text"});
 db.collection.runCommand( "desc", { search: "Text"})