node.js mongodb select document by _id node-mongodb-native

Question

I'm trying to select a document by id

I've tried:

collection.update({ "_id": { "$oid": + theidID } }  collection.update({ "_id": theidID }  collection.update({ "_id.$oid": theidID }} 

Also tried:

collection.update({ _id: new ObjectID(theidID ) } 

This gives me an error 500...

var mongo = require('mongodb') var BSON = mongo.BSONPure; var o_id = new BSON.ObjectID(theidID );  collection.update({ _id: o_id } 

None of these work. How to select by _id?

Answer 1

var mongo = require('mongodb'); var o_id = new mongo.ObjectID(theidID); collection.update({'_id': o_id});