Golang BSON conversion

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Mark Hayden picture Mark Hayden · Aug 27, 2014 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I am trying to convert a working mongo query to bson in golang. I have the basic stuff down and working but am struggling to figure out how to integrate more advanced or queries into the mix.

Anyone have a minute to help me convert the following query? It should hopefully give me the direction I need... Unfortunately I have not been able to find many examples outside of just evaluating and queries.

This works in mongo:

db.my_collection.find({"$or": [
      {"dependencies.provider_id": "abc"}, 
      {"actions.provider_id": "abc"}]})

This works in golang/bson:

bson.M{"dependencies.provider_id": "abc"}

How do I go about properly introducing the or statement?

Answer

Mark Hayden picture Mark Hayden · Aug 27, 2014

For completeness here is a full example of my last question in the comments above. The larger goal was dynamically building a bson query in go. Huge thanks to ANisus:

query := bson.M{}
query["origin"] = "test"
query["$or"] = []bson.M{}
query["$or"] = append(query["$or"].([]bson.M), bson.M{"abc": "1"})
query["$or"] = append(query["$or"].([]bson.M), bson.M{"def": "2"})

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