edwinallenz
I wan’t to do a filter for a field with a BSON.Binary representation.
I have the string like this
"a04fd31b-3ab0-36c9-b10d-abe272c88e8e"
that is represented like this in MongoDB
"userId" : LUUID("a04fd31b-3ab0-36c9-b10d-abe272c88e8e")
Inside elixir I have a field like this using the mongodb_driver
"userId" => #BSON.Binary<a04fd31b3ab036c9b10dabe272c88e8e, uuid_old>
I don’t know how to take the "a04fd31b-3ab0-36c9-b10d-abe272c88e8e" string and transform it to the proper Binary representation to query using the field.
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zookzook
Hi Edwin,
take a look at
Mongo.uuid/1(Mongo — mongodb-driver v1.6.3). I guess that’s what you are looking for.bragonya
Hi @zookzook,
The problem here is that we are triying to find
LUUIDwhich is represented by#BSON.Binary<a04fd31b3ab036c9b10dabe272c88e8e, uuid_old>, we tried to use the function that you mentioned but it just returned an empty result.because it returns us a#BSON.UUID<848e90e9-5750-4e0a-ab73-66ac6b328242>structure.Any other idea?
zookzook
Oh, I see, it is the type
uuid_old. This is the legacy UUID. I need to add support for this type.