Using java driver for Mongodb, how do you search for multiple values on the same field?

3
votes

I'm somewhat new to mongo. I want to query on a field for multiple values. In SQL, I want something like this:

select * from table where field in ("foo","bar")

Suppose I have the following documents in mongodb

{
  "_id":"foo"
}
{
  "_id":"bar"
}

I simply want to mimic this query:

db.coll.find( { _id: { $in: [ "foo", "bar" ] } } );

I want to retrieve all documents whose _id is either "foo" or "bar". And I'd like to do this using the java driver.

I tried something like

BasicDBObject query = new DBObject()
query.append("_id","foo");
query.append("_id","bar");
collection.find(query);

But that seems to return only the "bar" document.

Please help

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1 Answers

5
votes

To use the $in operator, it may be easier to use QueryBuilder to create the query like this:

QueryBuilder qb = new QueryBuilder();
qb.put("_id").in(new String[] {"foo", "bar"});
collection.find(qb.get());

or a little cleaner:

DBObject query = QueryBuilder.start("_id").in(new String[] {"foo", "bar"}).get();
collection.find(query);