Parameterized queries with Java and MongoDB

Question

Can you do parameterized queries with Java and MongoDB - kind of like prepared statements with JDBC?

What I'd like to do is something like this. Set up a query that takes a date range - and then call it with different ranges. I understand that DBCursor.find(...) doesn't work this way - this is kind of pseudo-code to illustrate what I'm looking for.

DBCollection dbc = ...
DBObject pQuery = (DBObject) JSON.parse("{'date' : {'$gte' : ?}, 'date' : {'$lte' : ?}}");
DBCursor aprilResults = dbc.find(pQuery, "2012-04-01", "2012-04-30");
DBCursor mayResults = dbc.find(pQuery, "2012-05-01", "2012-05-31");
...

Answer 1

MongoDB itself doesn't support anything like this, but then again, it doesn't take too much sense as it needs to send the query over to the server every time anyway. You can simply construct the object in your application yourself, and just modify specific parts by updating the correct array elements.