db.getCollectionInfos()¶

Definition¶

db.getCollectionInfos()¶

New in version 3.0.0.

Returns an array of documents with collection information, i.e. collection name and options, for the current database.

The db.getCollectionInfos() helper wraps the listCollections command.

Example¶

The following returns information for all collections in the records database:

use records
db.getCollectionInfos()

The method returns an array of documents that contain collection information:

[
   {
      "name" : "employees",
      "options" : {
         "flags" : 1
      }
   },
   {
      "name" : "products",
      "options" : {
         "flags" : 1
      }
   },
   {
      "name" : "mylogs",
      "options" : {
         "capped" : true,
         "size" : 256
      }
   },
   {
      "name" : "system.indexes",
      "options" : {
      }
   }
]

← db.getCollection() db.getCollectionNames() →

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