[NODE-1649] Node driver does not allow keys containing dots ('.') - MongoDB Jira

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MongoDB allows keys that contain dots:

Field names can contain dots (i.e. .) and dollar signs (i.e. $).

However, the Node driver prohibits them and throws the following error:

Error: key my.key.with.dots must not contain '.'

    at serializeInto (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:914:19)

    at serializeObject (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:348:18)

    at serializeInto (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:938:17)

    at serializeObject (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:348:18)

    at serializeInto (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:938:17)

    at serializeObject (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:348:18)

    at serializeInto (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:728:17)

    at serializeObject (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:348:18)

    at serializeInto (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/parser/serializer.js:938:17)

    at BSON.serialize (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/node_modules/bson/lib/bson/bson.js:63:28)

    at Query.toBin (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/commands.js:146:25)

    at serializeCommands (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:1045:43)

    at Pool.write (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:1261:3)

    at executeWrite (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/wireprotocol/3_2_support.js:147:10)

    at WireProtocol.insert (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/wireprotocol/3_2_support.js:158:3)

    at Server.insert (/usr/src/app/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:815:35)

The operation was a simple collection.insertOne().

duplicates

NODE-1645 Bson serialisation throw error on inner keys starting with '$'

is documented by

NODE-1652 Document checkKeys = false on write operations

related to

SERVER-30575 Please add escaping convention for dot and dollar signs!