cursor.addOption()¶

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Definition
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Example

Definition¶

cursor.addOption(flag)¶

Adds OP_QUERY wire protocol flags, such as the tailable flag, to change the behavior of queries.

The cursor.addOption() method has the following parameter:

Parameter	Type	Description
`flag`	flag	`OP_QUERY` wire protocol flag. For the `mongo` shell, you can use the cursor flags listed below. For the driver-specific list, see your driver documentation.

Flags¶

The mongo shell provides several additional cursor flags to modify the behavior of the cursor.

Flag	Description
`DBQuery.Option.tailable`¶	Sets the cursor not to close once the last data is received, allowing the query to continue returning data added after the initial results were exhausted.
`DBQuery.Option.slaveOk`¶	Allows querying of a replica slave.
`DBQuery.Option.noTimeout`¶	Prevents the server from timing out idle cursors.
`DBQuery.Option.awaitData`¶	For use with .. data:: DBQuery.Option.tailable; sets the cursor to block and await data for a while rather than returning no data. The cursor will return no data once the timeout has expired.
`DBQuery.Option.exhaust`¶	Sets the cursor to return all data returned by the query at once rather than splitting the results into batches.
`DBQuery.Option.partial`¶	Sets the cursor to return partial data from a query against a sharded cluster in which some shards do not respond rather than throwing an error.

Example¶

The following example adds the DBQuery.Option.tailable flag and the DBQuery.Option.awaitData flag to ensure that the query returns a tailable cursor. The sequence creates a cursor that will wait for few seconds after returning the full result set so that it can capture and return additional data added during the query:

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var t = db.myCappedCollection;
var cursor = t.find().addOption(DBQuery.Option.tailable).
                      addOption(DBQuery.Option.awaitData)

Warning

Adding incorrect wire protocol flags can cause problems and/or extra server load.

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