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New in version 7.0.

ClientEncryption.createEncryptedCollection(dbName, collName, clientEncOpts)

ClientEncryption.createEncryptedCollection creates an encrypted collection specified by collName on the database specified by dbName.

ClientEncryption.createEncryptedCollection has the following syntax:

clientEncryption = db.getMongo().getClientEncryption()
clientEncryption.createEncryptedCollection(
dbName,
collName,
{
provider: kmsProviderName,
createCollectionOptions: encryptedFieldsMap,
masterKey: customerMasterKeyCredentials
}
)

createEncryptedCollection takes these fields:

Field
Type
Necessity
Description
dbName
string
Required
Name of the database to encrypt.
collName
string
Required
Name of the collection to encrypt.
clientEncOpts
document
Required
Options to configure the encrypted collection.
clientEncOpts.provider
string
Required
KMS you are using to store your Customer Master Key.
clientEncOpts.createCollectionOptions
document
Required
Fields to encrypt. See Specify Fields for Encryption for details on how to configure the encryptedFieldsMap object.
clientEncOpts.masterKey
document
Optional
How to get the master key when the KMS Provider is AWS, GCP, or Azure.

The mongosh client-side field level and queryable encryption methods require a database connection configured for client-side encryption. If the current database connection was not initiated with client-side field level encryption enabled, either:

or

The following example uses a locally managed KMS for the queryable encryption configuration.

1
1

Start the mongosh client.

mongosh --nodb
2

To configure client-side field level encryption for a locally managed key, generate a base64-encoded 96-byte string with no line breaks.

const TEST_LOCAL_KEY = require("crypto").randomBytes(96).toString("base64")
3

Create the client-side field level encryption options using the generated local key string:

var autoEncryptionOpts = {
"keyVaultNamespace" : "encryption.__dataKeys",
"kmsProviders" : {
"local" : {
"key" : BinData(0, TEST_LOCAL_KEY)
}
}
}
4

Use the Mongo() constructor with the client-side field level encryption options configured to create a database connection. Replace the mongodb://myMongo.example.net URI with the connection string URI of the target cluster.

encryptedClient = Mongo(
"mongodb://myMongo.example.net:27017/?replSetName=myMongo",
autoEncryptionOpts
)
2

Create an encryptedFieldsMaps to specify which fields to encrypt:

const encryptedFieldsMap = {
encryptedFields: {
fields: [
{
path: "secretField",
bsonType: "string",
queries: { queryType: "equality" },
},
],
},
};
3

Create an encrypted enc.users collection:

clientEncryption = encryptedClient.getClientEncryption();
var result = clientEncryption.createEncryptedCollection(
"enc",
"users",
{
provider: "local",
createCollectionOptions: encryptedFieldsMap,
masterKey: {} // masterKey is optional when provider is local
}
)
4

createEncryptedCollection returns a large result object with many fields. Check the value of result.collection to confirm the collection was created in the desired location.

enc> result.collection
enc.users
  • For complete documentation on initiating MongoDB connections with client-side field level encryption enabled, see Mongo().

  • For a complete example of how to create and query an encrypted collection, see Quick Start.

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