How to create a new document in MongoDB
Use db.collection.insert() method to insert new document to MongoDB collection. You don’t need to create the collection first. Insert method will automatically create collection if not exists.
Syntax
db.COLLECTION_NAME.insert(document)
Insert Single Document
Insert single ducument using the insert() method. It’s required a json format of document to pass as arguments. db.users.insert({
"id": 1001,
"user_name": "A",
"name": [
{"first_name": "A"},
{"middle_name": ""},
{"last_name": "D"}
],
"email": "ad@aodba",
"designation": "Some Guy",
"location": "Global"
})WriteResult({ “nInserted” : 1 })Insert Multiple Documents
To insert multiple documents in single command. The best way to create an array of documents like following: var users =
[
{
"id": 1002,
"user_name": "jack",
"name": [
{"first_name": "Jack"},
{"middle_name": ""},
{"last_name": "Daniel"}
],
"email": "ao@gmail",
"designation": "Worker",
"location": "US"
},
{
"id": 1003,
"user_name": "Mark",
"name": [
{"first_name": "Mark"},
{"middle_name": "S"},
{"last_name": "Henry"}
],
"email": "ao@aodba",
"designation": "DBA",
"location": "US"
}
]; db.users.insert(users);BulkWriteResult({
"writeErrors" : [ ],
"writeConcernErrors" : [ ],
"nInserted" : 2,
"nUpserted" : 0,
"nMatched" : 0,
"nModified" : 0,
"nRemoved" : 0,
"upserted" : [ ]
})