The following is a detailed collection of the changes in the major v6 release of the mongodb
package for Node.js.
The main focus of this release was usability improvements and a streamlined API. Read on for details!
Important
This is a list of changes relative to v5.8.1 of the driver. ALL changes listed below are BREAKING. Users migrating from an older version of the driver are advised to upgrade to at least v5.8.1 before adopting v6.
- 🛠️ Runtime and dependency updates
- ☀️ API usability improvements
findOneAndX
family of methods will now return only the found document ornull
by default (includeResultMetadata
is false by default)session.commitTransaction()
andsession.abortTransaction()
return voidwithSession
andwithTransaction
return the value returned by the provided function- Driver methods throw if a session is provided from a different
MongoClient
- Callbacks removed from ClientEncryption's
encrypt
,decrypt
, andcreateDataKey
methods MongoCryptError
is now a subclass ofMongoError
- ⚙️ Option parsing improvements
- 🐛 Bug fixes
- db.command() and admin.command() unsupported options removed
- Removed irrelevant fields from
ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent.options
- Fixed parsing of empty readPreferenceTags in connection string
- Corrected
GridFSBucketWriteStream
'sWritable
method overrides and event emission - Fix manually emitted events from
GridFSBucketReadStream
createDataKey
return type fix
- 📜 Removal of deprecated functionality
- 🗑️ Removal of "dead" code
⚠️ ALL BREAKING CHANGES
The minimum supported Node.js version is now v16.20.1. We strive to keep our minimum supported Node.js version in sync with the runtime's release cadence to keep up with the latest security updates and modern language features.
This driver version has been updated to use [email protected]
. BSON functionality re-exported from the driver is subject to the changes outlined in the BSON V6 release notes.
kerberos
optional peer dependency minimum version raised to2.0.1
, dropped support for1.x
zstd
optional peer depedency minimum version raised to1.1.0
from1.0.0
mongodb-client-encryption
optional peer dependency minimum version raised to6.0.0
from2.3.0
(note thatmongodb-client-encryption
does not have3.x-5.x
version releases)
Note
As of version 6.0.0, all useful public APIs formerly exposed from mongodb-client-encryption
have been moved into the driver and should now be imported directly from the driver. These APIs rely internally on the functionality exposed from mongodb-client-encryption
, but there is no longer any need to explicitly reference mongodb-client-encryption
in your application code.
The driver uses the socks
dependency to connect to mongod
or mongos
through a SOCKS5 proxy. socks
used to be a required dependency of the driver and was installed automatically. Now, socks
is a peerDependency
that must be installed to enable socks
proxy support.
findOneAndX
family of methods will now return only the found document or null
by default (includeResultMetadata
is false by default)
Previously, the default return type of this family of methods was a ModifyResult
containing the found document and additional metadata. This additional metadata is unnecessary for the majority of use cases, so now, by default, they will return only the found document or null
.
The previous behavior is still available by explicitly setting includeResultMetadata: true
in the options.
See the following blog post for more information.
// This has the same behaviour as providing `{ includeResultMetadata: false }` in the v5.7.0+ driver
await collection.findOneAndUpdate({ hello: 'world' }, { $set: { hello: 'WORLD' } });
// > { _id: new ObjectId("64c4204517f785be30795c92"), hello: 'world' }
// This has the same behaviour as providing no options in any previous version of the driver
await collection.findOneAndUpdate(
{ hello: 'world' },
{ $set: { hello: 'WORLD' } },
{ includeResultMetadata: true }
);
// > {
// > lastErrorObject: { n: 1, updatedExisting: true },
// > value: { _id: new ObjectId("64c4208b17f785be30795c93"), hello: 'world' },
// > ok: 1
// > }
Each of these methods erroneously returned server command results that can be different depending on server version or type the driver is connected to. These methods return a promise that if resolved means the command (aborting or commiting) sucessfully completed and rejects otherwise. Viewing command responses is possible through the command monitoring APIs on the MongoClient
.
The await client.withSession(async session => {})
now returns the value that the provided function returns. Previously, this function returned void
this is a feature to align with the following breaking change.
The await session.withTransaction(async () => {})
method now returns the value that the provided function returns. Previously, this function returned the server command response which is subject to change depending on the server version or type the driver is connected to. The return value got in the way of writing robust, reliable, consistent code no matter the backing database supporting the application.
Warning
When upgrading to this version of the driver, be sure to audit any usages of withTransaction
for if
statements or other conditional checks on the return value of withTransaction
. Previously, the return value was the command response if the transaction was committed and undefined
if it had been manually aborted. It would only throw if an operation or the author of the function threw an error. Since prior to this release, it was not possible to get the result of the function passed to withTransaction
we suspect most existing functions passed to this method return void
, making withTransaction
a void
returning function in this major release. Take care to ensure that the return values of your function match the expectation of the code that follows the completion of withTransaction
.
Providing a session from one MongoClient
to a method on a different MongoClient
has never been a supported use case and leads to undefined behavior. To prevent this mistake, the driver now throws a MongoInvalidArgumentError
if session is provided to a driver helper from a different MongoClient
.
// pre v6
const session = client1.startSession();
client2.db('foo').collection('bar').insertOne({ name: 'john doe' }, { session }); // no error thrown, undefined behavior
// v6+
const session = client1.startSession();
client2.db('foo').collection('bar').insertOne({ name: 'john doe' }, { session });
// MongoInvalidArgumentError thrown
Driver v5 dropped support for callbacks in asynchronous functions in favor of returning promises in order to provide more consistent type and API experience. In alignment with that, we are now removing support for callbacks from the ClientEncryption
class.
Since MongoCryptError
made use of Node.js 16's Error
API, it has long supported setting the Error.cause
field using options passed in via the constructor. Now that Node.js 16 is our minimum supported version, MongoError
has been modified to make use of this API as well, allowing us to let MongoCryptError
subclass from it directly.
These options were removed in 4.0.0 but continued to be parsed and silently left unused. We have now added a deprecation warning through Node.js' warning system and will fully remove these options in the next major release.
Prior to this change, we accepted the values '1', 'y', 'yes', 't'
as synonyms for true
and '-1', '0', 'f', 'n', 'no'
as synonyms for false
. These have now been removed in an effort to make working with connection string options simpler.
// Incorrect
const client = new MongoClient('mongodb://localhost:27017?tls=1'); // throws MongoParseError
// Correct
const client = new MongoClient('mongodb://localhost:27017?tls=true');
In order to avoid accidental misconfiguration, the driver will no longer prioritize the first instance of an option provided on the URI. Instead, repeated options that are not permitted to be repeated will throw an error.
This change will ensure that connection strings that contain options like tls=true&tls=false
are no longer ambiguous.
In order to align with Node.js best practices of keeping I/O async, we have updated the MongoClient
to store the file names provided to the existing tlsCAFile
and tlsCertificateKeyFile
options, as well as the tlsCRLFile
option, and only read these files the first time it connects. Prior to this change, the files were read synchronously on MongoClient
construction.
Note
This has no effect on driver functionality when TLS configuration files are properly specified. However, if there are any issues with the TLS configuration files (invalid file name), the error is now thrown when the MongoClient
is connected instead of at construction time.
const client = new MongoClient(CONNECTION_STRING, {
tls: true,
tlsCAFile: 'caFileName',
tlsCertificateKeyFile: 'certKeyFile',
tlsCRLFile: 'crlPemFile'
}); // Files are not read here, but file names are stored on the MongoClient
await client.connect(); // Files are now read and their contents stored
await client.close();
await client.connect(); // Since the file contents have already been cached, the files will not be read again.
Take a look at our TLS documentation for more information on the tlsCAFile
, tlsCertificateKeyFile
, and tlsCRLFile
options.
These APIs allow for specifying a command BSON document directly, so the driver does not try to enumerate all possible commands that could be passed to this API in an effort to be as forward and backward compatible as possible.
The db.command()
and admin.command()
APIs have their options
types updated to accurately reflect options compatible on all commands that could be passed to either API.
Perhaps most notably, readConcern
and writeConcern
options are no longer handled by the driver. Users must attach these properties to the command that is passed to the .command()
method.
The options
field of ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent
now has the following shape:
{
maxPoolSize: number,
minPoolSize: number,
maxConnecting: number,
maxIdleTimeMS: number,
waitQueueTimeoutMS: number
}
The following connection string will now produce the following readPreferenceTags:
'mongodb://host?readPreferenceTags=region:ny&readPreferenceTags=rack:r1&readPreferenceTags=';
// client.options.readPreference.tags
[{ region: 'ny' }, { rack: 'r1' }, {}];
The empty readPreferenceTags
allows drivers to still select a server if the leading tag conditions are not met.
Our implementation of a writeable stream for GridFSBucketWriteStream
mistakenly overrode the write()
and end()
methods, as well as, manually emitted 'close'
, 'drain'
, 'finish'
events. Per Node.js documentation, these methods and events are intended for the Node.js stream implementation to provide, and an author of a stream implementation is supposed to override _write
, _final
, and allow Node.js to manage event emitting.
Since the API is still a Writable
stream most usages will continue to work with no changes, the .write()
and .end()
methods are still available and take the same arguments. The breaking change relates to the improper manually emitted event listeners that are now handled by Node.js. The 'finish'
and 'drain'
events will no longer receive the GridFSFile
document as an argument (this is the document inserted to the bucket's files collection after all chunks have been inserted). Instead, it will be available on the stream itself as a property: gridFSFile
.
// If our event handler is declared as a `function` "this" is bound to the stream.
fs.createReadStream('./file.txt')
.pipe(bucket.openUploadStream('file.txt'))
.on('finish', function () {
console.log(this.gridFSFile);
});
// If our event handler is declared using big arrow notation,
// the property is accessible on a scoped variable
const uploadStream = bucket.openUploadStream('file.txt');
fs.createReadStream('./file.txt')
.pipe(uploadStream)
.on('finish', () => console.log(uploadStream.gridFSFile));
Since the class no longer emits its own events: static constants GridFSBucketWriteStream.ERROR
, GridFSBucketWriteStream.FINISH
, GridFSBucketWriteStream.CLOSE
have been removed to avoid confusion about the source of the events and the arguments their listeners accept.
The GridFSBucketReadStream
internals have also been corrected to no longer emit events that are handled by Node's stream logic. Since the class no longer emits its own events: static constants GridFSBucketReadStream.ERROR
, GridFSBucketReadStream.DATA
, GridFSBucketReadStream.CLOSE
, and GridFSBucketReadStream.END
have been removed to avoid confusion about the source of the events and the arguments their listeners accept.
Previously, the TypeScript for createDataKey
incorrectly declared the result to be a DataKey
but the method actually returns the DataKey's insertedId
.
The deprecated addUser
APIs have been removed. The driver maintains support across many server versions and the createUser
command has support for different features based on the server's version. Since applications can generally write code to work against a uniform and perhaps more modern server, the path forward is for applications to send the createUser
command directly.
The associated options interface with this API has also been removed: AddUserOptions
.
See the createUser
documentation for more information.
const db = client.db('admin');
// Example addUser usage
await db.addUser('myUsername', 'myPassword', { roles: [{ role: 'readWrite', db: 'mflix' }] });
// Example equivalent command usage
await db.command({
createUser: 'myUsername',
pwd: 'myPassword',
roles: [{ role: 'readWrite', db: 'mflix' }]
});
The collStats
command is deprecated starting in server v6.2 so the driver is removing its bespoke helper in this major release. The collStats
command is still available to run manually via await db.command()
. However, the recommended migration is to use the $collStats
aggregation stage.
The following interfaces associated with this API have also been removed: CollStatsOptions
and WiredTigerData
.
The following deprecated properties have been removed as they duplicated those outlined in the [MongoDB CRUD specification|https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/blob/611ecb5d624708b81a4d96a16f98aa8f71fcc189/source/crud/crud.rst#write-results]. The list indicates what properties provide the correct migration:
BulkWriteResult.nInserted
->BulkWriteResult.insertedCount
BulkWriteResult.nUpserted
->BulkWriteResult.upsertedCount
BulkWriteResult.nMatched
->BulkWriteResult.matchedCount
BulkWriteResult.nModified
->BulkWriteResult.modifiedCount
BulkWriteResult.nRemoved
->BulkWriteResult.deletedCount
BulkWriteResult.getUpsertedIds
->BulkWriteResult.upsertedIds
/BulkWriteResult.getUpsertedIdAt(index: number)
BulkWriteResult.getInsertedIds
->BulkWriteResult.insertedIds
The following options have been removed with their supported counterparts listed after the ->
sslCA
->tlsCAFile
sslCRL
->tlsCRLFile
sslCert
->tlsCertificateKeyFile
sslKey
->tlsCertificateKeyFile
sslPass
->tlsCertificateKeyFilePassword
sslValidate
->tlsAllowInvalidCertificates
tlsCertificateFile
->tlsCertificateKeyFile
TCP keep alive will always be on and now set to a value of 30000ms.
The removed functionality listed in this section was either unused or not useful outside the driver internals.
Constructors for MongoError
and its subclasses now clearly indicate they are meant for internal use only
MongoError
and its subclasses are not meant to be constructed by users as they are thrown within the driver on specific error conditions to allow users to react to these conditions in ways which match their use cases. The constructors for these types are now subject to change outside of major versions and their API documentation has been updated to reflect this.
As of this release, users will no longer be able to access the AutoEncrypter
interface or the MongoClient.autoEncrypter
field of an encrypted MongoClient
instance as they do not have a use outside the driver internals.
ClientEncryption.onKMSProvidersRefresh
was added as a public API in version 2.3.0 of mongodb-client-encryption
to allow for automatic refresh of KMS provider credentials. Subsequently, we added the capability to automatically refresh KMS credentials using the KMS provider's preferred refresh mechanism, and onKMSProviderRefresh
is no longer used.
This cleans up some dead code in the sense that there were no eval
command related APIs but the EvalOptions
type was public, so we want to ensure there are no surprises now that this type has been removed.
- NODE-5584: adopt bson v6 and mongodb-client-encryption v6 (#3845)
- NODE-5484: mark MongoError for internal use and remove Node14 cause assignment logic (#3800)
- NODE-4788: use implementer Writable methods for GridFSBucketWriteStream (#3808)
- NODE-4986: remove callbacks from ClientEncryption encrypt, decrypt, and createDataKey (#3797)
- NODE-5490: bump kerberos compatibility to ^2.0.1 (#3798)
- NODE-3568: ensure includeResultsMetadata is false by default (#3786)
- NODE-3989: only accept true and false for boolean options (#3791)
- NODE-5233: prevent session from one client from being used on another (#3790)
- NODE-5444: emit deprecation warning for useNewUrlParser and useUnifiedTopology (#3792)
- NODE-5470: convert remaining FLE to TS and drop support for
onKMSProvidersRefresh
(#3787) - NODE-5508: remove EvalOperation and EvalOptions (#3795)
- NODE-3920: validate options are not repeated in connection string (#3788)
- NODE-3924: read tls files async (#3776)
- NODE-5430: make AutoEncrypter and MongoClient.autoEncrypter internal (#3789)
- NODE-4961: remove command result from commit and abort transaction APIs (#3784)
- NODE-2014: return executor result from withSession and withTransaction (#3783)
- NODE-5409: allow socks to be installed optionally (#3782)
- NODE-4796: remove addUser and collection.stats APIs (#3781)
- NODE-4936: remove unsupported options from db.command and admin.command (#3775)
- NODE-5228: remove unneeded fields from ConnectionPoolCreatedEvent.options (#3772)
- NODE-5190: remove deprecated keep alive options (#3771)
- NODE-5186: remove duplicate BulkWriteResult accessors (#3766)
- NODE-5376: remove deprecated ssl options (#3755)
- NODE-5415: bump minimum Node.js version to v16.20.1 (#3760)