利用DBREF实现MongoDB的引用("外键")

Using DBRefs

There are three fields in DBRefs:

$ref: This field specifies the collection of the referenced document

$id: This field specifies the _id field of the referenced document

$db: This is an optional field and contains name of the database in which the referenced document lies

Consider a sample user document having DBRef field address as shown below:

{
   "_id":ObjectId("53402597d852426020000002"),
   "address": {
   "$ref": "address_home",
   "$id": ObjectId("534009e4d852427820000002"),
   "$db": "tutorialspoint"},
   "contact": "987654321",
   "dob": "01-01-1991",
   "name": "Tom Benzamin"
}

The address DBRef field here specifies that the referenced address document lies in address_home collection under tutorialspoint database and has an id of 534009e4d852427820000002.

The following code dynamically looks in the collection specified by $refparameter (address_home in our case) for a document with id as specified by$id parameter in DBRef.

>var user = db.users.findOne({"name":"Tom Benzamin"})
>var dbRef = user.address
>db[dbRef.$ref].findOne({"_id":(dbRef.$id)})

The above code returns the following address document present inaddress_home collection:

{
   "_id" : ObjectId("534009e4d852427820000002"),
   "building" : "22 A, Indiana Apt",
   "pincode" : 123456,
   "city" : "Los Angeles",
   "state" : "California"
}