Use findOne() in MongoDB for this. The findOne() returns one document that satisfies the specified query criteria on the collection.
Let us create a collection with documents −
> db.demo596.insertOne({_id:1,"FirstName":"John","LastName":"Smith"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 1 } > db.demo596.insertOne({_id:2,"FirstName":"John","LastName":"Doe"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 2 } > db.demo596.insertOne({_id:3,"FirstName":"Chris","LastName":"Brown"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 3 } > db.demo596.insertOne({_id:4,"FirstName":"David","LastName":"Miller"}); { "acknowledged" : true, "insertedId" : 4 }
Display all documents from a collection with the help of find() method −
> db.demo596.find();
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : 1, "FirstName" : "John", "LastName" : "Smith" } { "_id" : 2, "FirstName" : "John", "LastName" : "Doe" } { "_id" : 3, "FirstName" : "Chris", "LastName" : "Brown" } { "_id" : 4, "FirstName" : "David", "LastName" : "Miller" }
Here is the query to retrieve only a single document −
> db.demo596.findOne({"FirstName":"John"});
This will produce the following output −
{ "_id" : 1, "FirstName" : "John", "LastName" : "Smith" }