The Collection.add()
function is for storing
documents in a collection, similar to the
INSERT statement for an SQL
database. It takes a single document or a list of documents as
its argument, and is executed by the
execute()
function.
The collection needs to be created with the
Schema.createCollection()
function before
documents can be inserted. To insert documents into an existing
collection use the Schema.getCollection()
function to retrieve the Collection object.
The following example shows how to use the
Collection.add()
function. The example
assumes that the test schema exists and that the collection
my_collection
does not exist.
# Create a new collection
myColl = db.create_collection('my_collection')
# Insert a document
myColl.add({ 'name': 'Laurie', 'age': 19 }).execute()
# Insert several documents at once
myColl.add([
{ 'name': 'Nadya', 'age': 54 },
{ 'name': 'Lukas', 'age': 32 } ]).execute()
See also CollectionAddFunction for
the syntax of add()
in EBNF.