Finding text in MongoDB with ReactiveMongo

Question

I have some documents in MongoDB as shown below:

{
  "no" : "ABC123",
  "description": "The brown fox jumped over the lazy dog"
}

I want to be able to search all such documents in the collection and return all documents containing, say, the word "fox" in the description. Is this possible with ReactiveMongo? Thanks

Answer 1

In fact, the problem you are trying to solve is not related to ReactiveMongothe quality of the driver.

For example, you can use the command $regexto search for a string in mongodb as follows:

def coll: JSONCollection = db collection "your_collection"

val nameToFind = "Andrey"
val query = obj("name" -> obj("$regex" ->  (".*" + nameToFind + ".*")))
coll.find(query).cursor[JsObject].collect[List]() map {
  case objects => Ok(obj("result" -> objects))
}

Answer 2

This can be done using the $ text operator .