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Summary

create

New in version 6.0.

A create event occurs when a collection is created on a watched database and the change stream has the showExpandedEvents option set to true.

Description

Field
Type
Description
_id
Document

A BSON object which serves as an identifier for the change stream event. This value is used as the resumeToken for the resumeAfter parameter when resuming a change stream. The _id object has the following form:

{
   "_data" : <BinData|hex string>
}

The _data type depends on the MongoDB versions and, in some cases, the feature compatibility version (fCV) at the time of the change stream's opening or resumption. See Resume Tokens for the full list of _data types.

For an example of resuming a change stream by resumeToken, see Resume a Change Stream.

clusterTime
Timestamp

The timestamp from the oplog entry associated with the event.

Change stream event notifications associated with a multi-document transaction all have the same clusterTime value: the time when the transaction was committed.

On sharded clusters, events with the same clusterTime may not all relate to the same transaction. Some events don't relate to a transaction at all.

To identify events for a single transaction, you can use the combination of lsid and txnNumber in the change stream event document.

collectionUUID
UUID

If the change occurred on a collection, collectionUUID indicates the collection's UUID. If the change occurred on a view, collectionUUID doesn't exist.

New in version 6.0.

lsid
document

The identifier for the session associated with the transaction.

Only present if the operation is part of a multi-document transaction.

ns
document

The namespace (database and or collection) affected by the event.

ns.coll
string

The name of the collection where the event occurred.

ns.db
string

The name of the database where the event occurred.

operationDescription
document

Additional information on the change operation.

This document and its subfields only appears when the change stream uses expanded events.

New in version 6.0.

operationDescription.
idIndex
document

The default _id index for a new collection.

New in version 6.0.

operationType
string

The type of operation that the change notification reports.

Returns a value of create for these change events.

txnNumber
NumberLong

Together with the lsid, a number that helps uniquely identify a transction.

Only present if the operation is part of a multi-document transaction.

wallTime

The server date and time of the database operation. wallTime differs from clusterTime in that clusterTime is a timestamp taken from the oplog entry associated with the database operation event.

New in version 6.0.

Example

The following example shows a create event:

{
   "_id": { <ResumeToken> },
   "operationType": "create",
   "clusterTime": Timestamp({ t: 1654894547, i: 24 }),
   "collectionUUID": UUID("98046a1a-b649-4e5b-9c75-67594221ce19"),
   "wallTime": ISODate("2022-06-10T20:55:47.947Z"),
   "ns": {
      "db": "test",
      "coll": "names"
   },
   "operationDescription": {
      "idIndex": { "v": 2, "key": { _id: 1 }, "name": "_id_" }
   }
}

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