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How to get a list of all collections with mongoskin

The goal is to get a list of all the collections in the database using mongoskin.

I know you can enter the db.getCollectionNames() method in mongo shell to do this, but I haven't found a way to achieve the same in my app.

I have already looked at a similar post on SO (Is there a way to list collections with mongoskin?) and tried the posted solution without success.

Solution

  • It's collectionNames(). It returns databasename.collectionname (ex. "test.user") though... but you can do some string manipulations to get rid of that if you need.

    db.collectionNames(function(err, items) {
  items.forEach(function(item) {
    console.log(item.name);
  });
});