To auto increment in MongoDB to store a sequence of unique user id, let us create a collection which contains information about last sequence values of all documents.
Let us first create a collection. The query to create a collection which is as follows −
> db.createSequenceDemo.insertOne({_id:"SID",S_Value:0}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : "SID" }
Now, we will create a function that will generate an auto increment in MongoDB to store sequence. The query is as follows −
> function nextSequence(s) { ... var sd = db.createSequenceDemo.findAndModify({ ... query:{_id: s }, ... update: {$inc:{S_Value:1}}, ... new:true ... }); ... return sd.S_Value; ... }
Let us create a collection with some documents and call the above function in order to generate a sequence of unique user id.
The query to create a collection with a document is as follows −
> db.checkSequenceDemo.insertOne({"StudentId":nextSequence("SID"),"StudentName":"Larry","StudentMathMarks":78}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c7f61008d10a061296a3c40") } > db.checkSequenceDemo.insertOne({"StudentId":nextSequence("SID"),"StudentName":"Mike","StudentMathMarks":89}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c7f61118d10a061296a3c41") } > db.checkSequenceDemo.insertOne({"StudentId":nextSequence("SID"),"StudentName":"Sam","StudentMathMarks":67}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : ObjectId("5c7f611d8d10a061296a3c42") }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method. The query is as follows −
> db.checkSequenceDemo.find().pretty();
The following is the output −
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5c7f61008d10a061296a3c40"), "StudentId" : 1, "StudentName" : "Larry", "StudentMathMarks" : 78 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5c7f61118d10a061296a3c41"), "StudentId" : 2, "StudentName" : "Mike", "StudentMathMarks" : 89 } { "_id" : ObjectId("5c7f611d8d10a061296a3c42"), "StudentId" : 3, "StudentName" : "Sam", "StudentMathMarks" : 67 }
Look at the field “StudentId” which is auto incremented by 1