[Feature Request] Export suggestion

[anonrig]

I believe there isn't any specific export functionality for a specific query. Let's say my query is:

db.articles.find({'source.name': 'github'}).sort({ "_id": 1}).skip(0).limit(30)

I just want to export the results of this query to JSON. But if I press Export button, it exports the whole collection.

[cakuki]

+1

[jeromelebel]

select all documents, and do cmd-c

[anonrig]

That doesn't work @jeromelebel

[jeromelebel]

Which version do you use? What part doesn't work? Can you select all? Can you copy? What do you get when you paste?

[cakuki]

In 3.0.8, I can select all documents but what is copied is: mongodb://localhost:27017/?
And yes it totally works in 3.1b.

Just a minor thing, is it possible to join documents with a comma? It'd make much easier to make valid JSON out of them. (I am a Obj-C noob, still looking where this process is going on.)

[jeromelebel]

Ah, that's true, I've fixed this feature in 3.1b1

Join documents? You mean at the end of the line? (in the copy buffer)

[cakuki]

At the end of every document actually. So it will be an array when pasted into [ ].

Right now the output is like:

{
  "id": 1,
  "key": "value1"
}
{
  "id": 2,
  "key": "value2"
}

what I'd prefer (and I think will be useful for everyone):

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "key": "value1"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "key": "value2"
  }
]

[cakuki]

👍 thanks @jeromelebel