collection.distinct()

Example

To call the collection.distinct() action from a Function, get a collection handle with database.collection(), and then call the handle's distinct() method, passing in the field from which you want to get distinct values, and the query object for finding the documents. The following code returns all unique values of the field "status" for all documents within the "tasks" collection:

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const taskCollection = context.services.get("mongodb-atlas")
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  .db("tracker").collection("tasks");
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taskCollection.distinct("status", {})
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  .then(results => {
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      console.log(JSON.stringify(results));
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      console.log(results.length);
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  })
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  .catch(err => console.error(err))

The following example performs the same distinct() call, this time within a transaction. We are using the optional options parameter to pass in the current transaction's session object:

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const client = context.services.get("mongodb-atlas");
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const session = client.startSession();
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session.startTransaction();
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const taskCollection = client.db("tracker").collection("tasks");
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taskCollection.distinct("status", {}, { session })
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  .then(results => {
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      console.log(JSON.stringify(results));
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      console.log(results.length);
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  })
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  .catch(err => console.error(err))
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await session.commitTransaction();
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session.endSession();

Parameters

The collection.distinct() action has the following form:

distinct(key, query, options)

The function has the following parameters:

Return Value

The collection.distinct() action returns a Promise that resolves to an array of distinct values.