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Type:
Bug
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Priority:
Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Labels:
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Environment:
*Location*: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/query/type/
*User-Agent*: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.93 Safari/537.36
*Referrer*: https://www.google.com/
*Screen Resolution*: 1440 x 900
*repo*: docs
*source*: reference/operator/query/type
*Location*: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/query/type/ *User-Agent*: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.93 Safari/537.36 *Referrer*: https://www.google.com/ *Screen Resolution*: 1440 x 900 *repo*: docs *source*: reference/operator/query/type
It appears you can also use $type with a string argument that describes the data type, e.g.
{"$type" : "string"}
{"$type": "int"}
(I saw this in the 3.2 training lesson on document validation and had never heard of it before.)
This needs to be documented.