db.collection.find() not working as expected-CodePudding

So basically I'm trying to get all the documents (as it's called in Mongodb) in a collection. I've watched some Youtube videos and they use the db.collection.find() method to do this.

In my case however this doesn't work for some reason. I'm using node js take a look at my code below.

import { MongoClient } from 'mongodb';

const client = new MongoClient(uri);
const database = client.db(dbase);
const collection = database.collection(collec);

const getAll = async () => {
    const res = await collection.find({});
    await client.close();
    return res;

console.log(getAll);

I was expecting some sort of an object or maybe an array of objects but unfortunatly I get this:

<ref *1> FindCursor {
  _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
  _eventsCount: 0,
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  [Symbol(kCapture)]: false,
  [Symbol(client)]: MongoClient {
    _events: [Object: null prototype] {},
    _eventsCount: 0,
    _maxListeners: undefined,

I'm not going to show the full error message since it contains sesetive information but this is the first few lines which I think should be save to share.

Thanks in advance...

CodePudding user response：

You need to call the toArray() function to get the array of results.

const getAll = async () => {
    const res = await collection.find({}).toArray();
    await client.close();
    return res;
}

console.log(getAll())

CodePudding user response：

Found the answer

const getAll = async () => {
  const cursor = COL.find({});
  await cursor.forEach((doc) => console.log(doc));
};

const getAll = async () => {
    const res = await collection.find({}).toArray();
    await client.close();
    return res;
}

console.log(getAll())

credit to Sou for the second answer!