How to copy collections to new collections in same MongodB in MeteorJS

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This is showing how to copy one from one collection to another in the same dB in Mongo shell

db.myoriginal.aggregate([ { $out: "mycopy" } ])

How to do this inside MeteorJS thanks.

Essentially I hope the new copied collections will have new id for further merging and MapReduce as otherwise merging cannot be done if IDs are the same.

MyCollection.aggregate <- this is not valid function inside MeteorJS?
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You can either call aggregate on Mongo.Collection#rawCollection yourself (server side only), or use a third party package like meteorhacks:aggregate that does this for you.

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Thanks Hugh, they both seem to be server side only, what if I need to create a copy of the original collection, say when button is clicked by user and wanting to generate a small local collection copy?

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To handle this client side, you’ll have to copy the collection yourself. Something like:

...
const originalCollection = new Mongo.Collection('original_collection');
const copiedLocalCollection = new Mongo.Collection(null);
...
const copiedArrayWithoutIds = originalCollection.find().map((someObject) => {
  return _.omit(someObject, '_id');
});
copiedLocalCollection.insert(copiedArrayWithoutIds);
...
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