JavaScript JSON Cookbook

Using REST to update a document in MongoDB

Updating is identical to insertion, except that it needs a document ID and the client signals an update request with a HTTP POST request, rather than a PUT request.

How to do it...

The client code is exactly the same as the previous recipe; only the server code changes because it needs to extract the ID from the URL and perform an update instead of an insert:

exports.updateDocuments = function(req, res) { var id = new objectId(req.params.id); var document = req.body; db.collection('documents', function(err, collection) { collection.update({'_id':id}, document, {safe:true}, function(err, result) { if (err) { console.log('Error updating documents: ' + err); res.send({'error':'An error has occurred'}); } else ...