Is there a way to use mongodb 3.4 collation?

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Hello,

I am just wondering if there is a way to use the collation support for server side mongodb queries. This is the nodejs syntax:

db.myCollection.createIndex({city: 1}, {collation: {locale: "en", strength: 2}});
// may work as MyCollection._ensureIndex({city:1},{collation: {locale: "en",strength:2}});

db.myCollection.find({city: "new york"}).collation({locale: "en", strength: 2});
//?? any way to do this?

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-90

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The current MongoDB driver used in Meteor is 2.2.16, so the collation method is available on Meteor’s rawCollection cursors.

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could example to run mongodb queres on Meteor?
example I would like to run

db.createView(........);
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createView is not currently supported in the MongoDB driver.

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If you use rawCollection, do you lose the benefit of live updates being published whenever changes are written to the database?

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No - oplog tailing continues to work as you’d expect :slight_smile:

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It is good, if Meteor support View.
We can use it on Tabular, Report .....

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This is not a Meteor issue. This is the official MongoDB Javascript driver package. As soon as that gets support, so will Meteor.

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Great! Thank you for the information.

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Thanks @robfallows, I don’t know about this.

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@robfallows, would you please give an example of how to do this in a publish function? RawCollection I don’t think gives a cursor that is compatible with meteor.

I tried return Meteor.wrapAsync(Items.rawCollection().find(searchCriteria).collation(defaultCollation))(), but it’s not working as I would hope.

I am using the collection hooks package and need that to still work. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work with rawCollection. Any ideas on what to do?

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I’ve not had a chance to look into this. However, the Meteor Cursor functionality is here:

If I get some time I’ll look into this, but if you get an answer first I’d love to see it :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the reply Rob. I looked through what you posted, and it was really helpful. I think I would be able to make some changes to get it to work with find actually, and I don’t think it would be too complicated. However, I just decided to recreate all my collections with a default collation, which is better than having to manually specify a collation every time I do a find operation.

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@turbob how did you manage to recreate your collections with a default collation? I’m going through the same process now myself.

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This is the most important code. I actually ended up creating a new temp collection, copying all documents there, then recreate old collection with collation and recopy. annoying but it works.

    var db = MongoInternals.defaultRemoteCollectionDriver().mongo.db;
                    db.createCollection("myCollection", {
                        "collation": {
                            locale: "en",
                            strength: 1
                        }
                    });
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Thanks @turbob, that’s the code I was after. Seems that even if a collection is setup with default collation as above, Meteor only honours the collation if the mongo query is actioned via the server; client queries ignore the collation. I’m assuming this is due to the disparity between the server version of mongodb and the driver version?

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No - it’s because you’re limited to minimongo on the client, and there’s currently no support for collations.

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Thanks for the clear concise answer @robfallows. As a beginner it was surprisingly hard for me to find this answer anyway else. Makes perfect sense now.

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