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ObjectId.toString()

ObjectId.toString()
Returns:The string representation of the ObjectId() object. This value has the format of ObjectId(...).

Changed in version 2.2: In previous versions ObjectId.toString() returns the value of the ObjectId as a hexadecimal string.

In the following example, call the toString() method on an ObjectId (e.g. ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e")):

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ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e").toString()

This will return the following string:

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ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e")

You can confirm the type of this object using the following operation:

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typeof ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e").toString()

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