Details
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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Open
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Priority:
Major - P3
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 3.1.6
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Fix Version/s: Backlog
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Component/s: JavaScript, Shell
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Sprint:Dev Tools 2019-11-04
Description
ES6 adds support for a symbol type. This type is not supported in our shell and server-side JS, even though SpiderMonkey provides native support:
// Shell
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> db.foo.insert({a: Symbol()});
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2015-07-22T15:17:17.176-0400 E QUERY [thread1] Error: unable to convert JavaScript property to mongo element a :
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Bulk/addToOperationsList@src/mongo/shell/bulk_api.js:600:22
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Bulk/this.insert@src/mongo/shell/bulk_api.js:647:14
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DBCollection.prototype.insert@src/mongo/shell/collection.js:256:13
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@(shell):1:1
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// Server-side JS
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> db.eval('db.foo.insert({a: Symbol()});');
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WARNING: db.eval is deprecated
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2015-07-22T15:18:00.853-0400 E QUERY [thread1] Error: {
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"ok" : 0,
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"errmsg" : "Error: unable to convert JavaScript property to mongo element a :\nBulk/addToOperationsList@src/mongo/shell/bulk_api.js:600:22\nBulk/this.insert@src/mongo/shell/bulk_api.js:647:14\nDBCollection.prototype.insert@src/mongo/shell/collection.js:256:13\n_funcs1@:1:30\n",
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"code" : 16662
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} :
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_getErrorWithCode@src/mongo/shell/utils.js:23:13
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DB.prototype.eval@src/mongo/shell/db.js:542:1
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@(shell):1:1
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