Let's say I have a number of movie genres:
[
{ id: 28, name: 'Action' },
{ id: 12, name: 'Adventure' },
{ id: 16, name: 'Animation' },
{ id: 35, name: 'Comedy' },
{ id: 80, name: 'Crime' },
{ id: 99, name: 'Documentary' },
{ id: 18, name: 'Drama' },
{ id: 10751, name: 'Family' },
{ id: 14, name: 'Fantasy' },
{ id: 10769, name: 'Foreign' },
{ id: 36, name: 'History' },
{ id: 27, name: 'Horror' },
{ id: 10402, name: 'Music' },
{ id: 9648, name: 'Mystery' },
{ id: 10749, name: 'Romance' },
{ id: 878, name: 'Science Fiction' },
{ id: 10770, name: 'TV Movie' },
{ id: 53, name: 'Thriller' },
{ id: 10752, name: 'War' },
{ id: 37, name: 'Western' }
]
and I have a connection to an instance of MongoDB (v3.2): dband I am using the standard mongodb driver Node.js ( const mongodb = require('mongodb').MongoClient).
What I want to do is one operation of increasing the volume in the collection, for example genres, where the field is _iddisplayed in the field of idour genre objects.
Now I know that I could iterate over each element in the array and do a simple upsert:
for (let i = 0; i < genres.length; i++) {
await db.collection('genres').update(
{ _id: genres[i].id },
genres[i],
{ upsert: true }
);
}
But it seems wasteful and wrong.
Is there an easier way to do what should be a relatively simple task?
thank