'Convert UUIDv4 to ObjectID - MongoDB

At the moment I am generating unique UUID's and save them as a string in MongoDB. Is there a way to store these UUID's as ObjectID in MongoDB.

The problem is that User.findOne based on _id doesn't work because UUID is a string and not a ObjectID

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Solution 1:[1]

you don't have to generate the uuids of entities mongoose do it for you, for example if you use the create() method without passing the _id it will generate it.

it's sure better to hand-generate it.

and its by default.

Solution 2:[2]

So basically store them as _id: UUID("5fe6075a-8157-4dfc-8aab-3316ea9cbf17") format instead of string. Then it should work as expected with findOne(). Also you may refer to this answer.

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Solution 1 Marco Bertelli
Solution 2 fractal397

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