Insert Documents

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import { MongoClient } from "mongodb";
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// Replace the uri string with your MongoDB deployment's connection string.
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const uri = "<connection string uri>";
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// Create a new client and connect to MongoDB
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const client = new MongoClient(uri);
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async function run() {
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  try {
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    // Connect to the "sample_mflix" database and access its "movies" collection
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    const database = client.db("sample_mflix");
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    const movies = database.collection("movies");
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    // Create a document to insert
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    const doc = {
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      title: "Charade",
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      genres: ["Comedy", "Romance", "Thriller"],
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      year: 1963,
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      cast: ["Cary Grant", "Audrey Hepburn", "Walter Matthau"],
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    }
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    // Insert the defined document into the "movies" collection
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    const result = await movies.insertOne(doc);
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    // Print the ID of the inserted document
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    console.log(`A document was inserted with the _id: ${result.insertedId}`);
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  } finally {
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     // Close the MongoDB client connection
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    await client.close();
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  }
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}
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// Run the function and handle any errors
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run().catch(console.dir);

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import { MongoClient } from "mongodb";
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// Replace the uri string with your MongoDB deployment's connection string.
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const uri = "<connection string uri>";
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const client = new MongoClient(uri);
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interface Movie {
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  title: string;
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  content: string[];
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  year: number;
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  cast: string[];
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}
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async function run() {
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  try {
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    const database = client.db("sample_mflix");
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    // Specifying a Schema is optional, but it enables type hints on
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    // finds and inserts
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    const movies = database.collection<Movie>("movies");
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    const result = await movies.insertOne({
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      title: "Charade",
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      genres: ["Comedy", "Romance", "Thriller"],
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      year: 1963,
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      cast: ["Cary Grant", "Audrey Hepburn", "Walter Matthau"],
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    });
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    console.log(`A document was inserted with the _id: ${result.insertedId}`);
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  } finally {
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    await client.close();
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  }
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}
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run().catch(console.dir);

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import { MongoClient } from "mongodb";
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// Replace the uri string with your MongoDB deployment's connection string.
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const uri = "<connection string uri>";
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const client = new MongoClient(uri);
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async function run() {
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  try {
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    // Get the database and collection on which to run the operation
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    const database = client.db("sample_mflix");
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    const movies = database.collection("movies");
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    // Create an array of documents to insert
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    const moviesToInsert = [
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      { title: "Arsenic and Old Lace", genres: ["Comedy", "Romance"], year: 1944, cast: ["Cary Grant", "Priscilla Lane", "Raymond Massey"] },
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      { title: "Ball of Fire", genres: ["Comedy", "Romance"], year: 1941, cast: ["Gary Cooper", "Barbara Stanwyck", "Oskar Homolka"] },
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      { title: "I Married a Witch", genres: ["Comedy", "Fantasy", "Romance"], year: 1942, cast: ["Veronica Lake", "Fredric March", "Susan Hayward"] },
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    ];
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    // Prevent additional documents from being inserted if one fails
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    const options = { ordered: true };
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    // Execute insert operation
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    const result = await movies.insertMany(moviesToInsert, options);
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    // Print result
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    console.log(`${result.insertedCount} documents were inserted`);
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  } finally {
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    await client.close();
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  }
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}
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run().catch(console.dir);

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import { MongoClient } from "mongodb";
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// Replace the uri string with your MongoDB deployment's connection string.
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const uri = "<connection string uri>";
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const client = new MongoClient(uri);
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interface Movie {
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  title: string;
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  genres: string[];
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  year: number;
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  cast: string[];
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}
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async function run() {
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  try {
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    const database = client.db("sample_mflix");
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    // Specifying a schema is optional, but it enables type hints on
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    // finds and inserts
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    const movies = database.collection<Movie>("movies");
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    const result = await movies.insertMany(
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      { title: "Arsenic and Old Lace", genres: ["Comedy", "Romance"], year: 1944, cast: ["Cary Grant", "Priscilla Lane", "Raymond Massey"] },
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      { title: "Ball of Fire", genres: ["Comedy", "Romance"], year: 1941, cast: ["Gary Cooper", "Barbara Stanwyck", "Oskar Homolka"] },
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      { title: "I Married a Witch", genres: ["Comedy", "Fantasy", "Romance"], year: 1942, cast: ["Veronica Lake", "Fredric March", "Susan Hayward"] },
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      { ordered: true }
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    );
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    console.log(`${result.insertedCount} documents were inserted`);
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  } finally {
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    await client.close();
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  }
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}
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run().catch(console.dir);