Supported Operations for Automatic Encryption
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This page documents the specific commands, query operators, update operators, aggregation stages, and aggregation expressions supported by drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption.
Supported Read and Write Commands
Drivers using automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption support the following commands:
For any supported command, drivers return an error if the command uses an unsupported operator, aggregation stage, or aggregation expression. For a complete list of the supported operators, stages, and expressions, see the following sections of this page:
The following commands do not require automatic encryption. Drivers
configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption pass these commands directly to the
mongod
:
Issuing any other command through a driver configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption returns an error.
[1] | While automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) does not encrypt the
getMore command, the response to the command may contain
encrypted field values.
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Supported Query Operators
Drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption allow the following query operators when issued against deterministically encrypted fields:
Queries that compare an encrypted field to null
or a regular
expression always return an error even when using a supported query
operator. Queries issuing these operators against a randomly
encrypted field return an error.
The $exists
operator has normal behavior when issued against
both deterministically and randomly encrypted fields.
Queries specifying any other query operator against an encrypted field return an error.
The following query operators return an error even if not issued against an encrypted field:
Warning
Unexpected Behavior with BinData
MongoDB stores client-side field level encrypted fields as a
BinData
blob. Read and write operations
issued against the encrypted BinData
value may have unexpected or
incorrect behavior as compared to issuing that same operation against
the decrypted value. Certain operations have strict BSON type support
where issuing them against a BinData
value returns an error.
Drivers using automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption parse read and write operations for operators or expressions that do not support
BinData
values or that have unexpected behavior when issued againstBinData
values.Applications using explicit (manual) Client-Side Field Level Encryption may use this page as guidance for issuing read and write operations against encrypted fields.
Unsupported Insert Operations
Drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption do not support insert commands with the following behavior:
Inserting a document with
Timestamp(0,0)
associated to an encrypted field. The(0,0)
value indicates that themongod
should generate the Timestamp. When themongod
cannot generated encrypted fields, the resulting timestamp is unencrypted.Inserting a document without an encrypted
_id
if the configured automatic schema specifies an encrypted_id
field. When themongod
automatically generates an unencrypted ObjectId, omitting_id
from documents results in documents that do not conform to the automatic encryption rules.Inserting a document with an array associated to a deterministically encrypted field. Automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption does not support deterministically encrypting arrays.
Supported Update Operators
Drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption allow the following update operators when issued against deterministically encrypted fields:
When you use the $rename
operator on encrypted fields, the
automatic JSON schema must specify the same encryption metadata for the
source and target field names.
Updates specifying any other update operator against an encrypted field return an error.
Update operations with the following behavior return an error even if using a supported operator:
The update operation produces an array inside of an encrypted path.
The update operation uses aggregation expression syntax.
For update operations specifying a query filter on deterministically encrypted fields, the query filter must use only supported operators on those fields.
Supported Aggregation Stages
Drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption support the following aggregation pipeline stages:
$group
(For usage requirements, see$group
Behavior)$lookup
and$graphLookup
(For usage requirements, see$lookup
and$graphLookup
Behavior)
Pipelines operating on collections configured for automatic encryption that specify any other stage return an error.
For each supported pipeline stage, MongoDB tracks fields that must be encrypted as they pass through the supported pipelines and marks them for encryption.
Each supported stage must specify only supported query operators and aggregation expressions.
$group
Behavior
$group
has the following behaviors specific to Client-Side Field Level Encryption:
$group
supports:
Grouping on deterministically encrypted fields.
$group does not support:
$lookup
and $graphLookup
Behavior
Automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption supports the $lookup
and
$graphLookup
only if the from
collection matches the
collection on which the aggregation runs against (specifically,
self-lookup operations).
$lookup
and $graphLookup
stages that
reference a different from
collection return an error.
You cannot perform a $lookup
from a CSFLE-enabled MongoClient
on unencrypted collections.
Supported Aggregation Expressions
Drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption allow aggregation stages using the following expressions against deterministically encrypted fields:
All other aggregation expressions return an error if issued against encrypted fields.
Aggregation stages with the following behavior return an error even if using a supported aggregation expression:
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The expression specifies a field whose encryption properties
cannot be known until runtime and a subsequent aggregation
stage includes an expression referencing that field. |
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The expression creates a new field that references an
encrypted field and operates on that new field in the same
expression. |
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The expression references the prefix of an encrypted field
within the comparison expression. |
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The result of the expression is compared to an encrypted field. |
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The expression binds a variable to an encrypted
field or attempts to rebind $$CURRENT . |
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The first argument to the expression is an encrypted field, and
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Unsupported Field Types
Drivers configured for automatic Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) do not support any read or write operation that requires encrypting the following value types:
Encryption does not adequately hide the type information for these values.
Automatic CSFLE also does not support read or write operations on a deterministically encrypted field where the operation compares the encrypted field to the following value types:
array
bool
decimal128
double
object