I have a class that extends HashMap:
Now, when I save an instance of CustomMap, everything gets saved to Mongo correctly. However, if it is a new instance that does not have a _id property yet, the new _id is not being added as _id field to the CustomMap instance after the save operation. The _id is generated and persisted correctly though, it's just not being added to the CustomMap instance afterward. Here is a code snippet illustrating what I'm doing.
If I change the above code to convert the map to a BasicDBObject before saving it, the _id property is set correctly on the BasicDBObject instance. The problem is that the method calling save() has a reference to the CustomMap instance and I want to read the newly generated _id from it.
I can work around the issue by doing the manual mapping but I was wondering if there is a better way of doing this. In particular, since I also have a similar insert(List<CustomMap>) method in which I would have to do the conversion and manual mapping for each list item.
Maybe there is some class/interface my CustomMap could extend/implement that would allow Mongo to set the _id property?
If possible, I would like to keep the CustomMap class generic and not in any way tight to Mongo (i.e. not extending BasicDBObject or the like).
Code:
public class CustomMap extends HashMap<String, Object> { ... }Code:
public void save(CustomMap map, String collection) {
// assume map is: { field1: "one", field2: "two" }
mongoOps.save(map, collection);
// I would expect map to look like this now: { _id: ObjectId("newId"), field1: "one", field2: "two" }
// but instead the _id field is never added
}Code:
public void save(CustomMap map, String collection) {
BasicDBObject dbObject = new BasicDBObject(map);
mongoOps.save(dbObject, collection);
// dbObject now has the new _id set
// Since I want to read the generated _id from the original CustomMap object, I now need to set it:
map.put("_id", dbObject.get("_id"));
}Maybe there is some class/interface my CustomMap could extend/implement that would allow Mongo to set the _id property?
If possible, I would like to keep the CustomMap class generic and not in any way tight to Mongo (i.e. not extending BasicDBObject or the like).