cursor.itcount() (original) (raw)

cursor.itcount()

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is _not_the documentation for a language-specific driver, such as Node.js.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specificMongoDB driver documentation.

Counts the number of documents remaining in a cursor.

itcount() is similar to cursor.count(), but actually executes the query on an existing iterator, exhausting its contents in the process.

The itcount() method has the following prototype form:


db.collection.find(<query>).itcount()

See also:

This method is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

Note

This command is supported in all MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on Atlas support for all commands, seeUnsupported Commands.