Print object in mongo script

Question

How can I print to console an object in a Mongo script?

I tried:

> print({}) [object Object] 

It simply displays [object Object]. Which is the alternative for console.dir()?

Answer 1

You can use printjson for that:

> printjson({}) { }  > printjson({a: 'foo', b: 'bar'}) { "a" : "foo", "b" : "bar" } 

Answer 2

If all I want to do is take a look at the contents, I'll usually just use JSON.stringify().

> print ( JSON.stringify( { "foo": { "bar": "spam" } } ) )