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Robomongo UUID configuration
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Robomongo

Robomongo is a free MongoDB management tool for Mac, Linux and Windows. It has a convenient user interface and also does not sacrifice the powerful features of the mongo console.

Get the version for your platform here.

Configuration

Robomongo reads the ~/.robomongorc.js configuration script on startup.

Querying documents by UUID in the shell can be tricky. We found these configuration scripts helpful with Robomongo.

  1. Place .robomongorc.js in your User HOME directory
  2. Place uuidhelpers.js in /usr/local/share
  3. Restart Robomongo
  4. Select: Options- > Legacy UUID Encoding -> Use Python Encoding

Now you can use Python UUID notation to queries:

db.col.find({ 'myid': PYUUID("bcd51941-977f-3b18-8603-6e667dbda601") }).count()

References

You can find more information using these links.

Robomongo UUID article

Robomongo config file

UUID helper script on GitHub

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