Using MongoDB "_id" field as primary key within DataNucleus

Question

I am new to MongoDB and JDO after mostly doing development with Hibernate in the past. I am trying to persist a simple object and leverage the generated "_id" from MongoDB as the primary key for the persisted object. Unfortunately, it looks like DataNucleus is generating an "IDENTITY" field as well as Mongo generating an "_id" field in the persisted document. So, every object is persisted with two unique identifiers. How can I enforce DataNucleus to simply use the generated Mongo ObjectId? My persistent class is below.

@PersistentCapable(identityType=IdentityType.DATASTORE)
public class HistoricalPrice {

private String ticker;
private Date day;
private double open;
private double close;
private double high;
private double low;
private long volume;

public HistoricalPrice(String ticker, Date day, double open, double close, double high, double low, long volume) {
    super();
    this.ticker = ticker;
    this.day = day;
    this.open = open;
    this.close = close;
    this.high = high;
    this.low = low;
    this.volume = volume;
}

DataNucleus DataNucleus · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-28T07:41:00

Define the datastore identity "strategy" to be IDENTITY (as opposed to the default of NATIVE).

@DatastoreIdentity(strategy=IdGeneratorStrategy.IDENTITY)

i.e consistent with what would be needed on an RDBMS to use some inbuilt mechanism.

Using MongoDB "_id" field as primary key within DataNucleus

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