hi,

I am trying to insert a document using NoSQL explorer which would contain an ObjectId, but I get the following error:

"Error parsing JSON. Please use valid JSON, including double-quotes on object keys."

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my document looks like this:

[
    {
        "_id": new ObjectId("597f73ae46e0fb0001b865f3"),
        "Name": "Baz",
        "Type": "Bing"
        }
    },
    {
        "_id":new  ObjectId( "597f73ae46e0fb0001b865f4"),
        "Name": "Foo",
        "Type": "Bar"
        }
    }
]

I have tried removing the 'new' keyword and a few other things, to no avail.

How can I specify I want an ObjectID as the type so that it doesn't create a string, using the NoSQL explorer?

Thanks for any help!

You can't use javascript, so "new ObjectId(...)" won't work. That would only work in the console, which we don't have access to.

But you can use '$oid' like so:

{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "597f73ae46e0fb0001b865f4" } } 

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/mongodb-extended-json/