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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions source/fundamentals.txt
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Aggregation Expressions </fundamentals/aggregation-expression-operations>
Indexes </fundamentals/indexes>
Transactions </fundamentals/transactions>
Run a Command </fundamentals/run-command>
Collations </fundamentals/collations>
Logging </fundamentals/logging>
Monitoring </fundamentals/monitoring>
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.. _kotlin-run-command:

=============
Run a Command
=============

.. contents:: On this page
:local:
:backlinks: none
:depth: 2
:class: singlecol

Overview
--------

In this guide, you can learn how to run a database command with the
{+driver-short+}. You can use database commands to perform a variety of
administrative and diagnostic tasks, such as fetching server statistics,
initializing a replica set, or running an aggregation pipeline.

.. important:: Prefer Driver Methods to Database Commands

The driver provides wrapper methods for many database commands.
We recommend using driver methods instead of executing database
commands when possible.

To perform administrative tasks, use the :mongosh:`MongoDB Shell </>`
instead of the {+driver-short+}. Calling the ``db.runCommand()``
method inside the shell is the preferred method to issue database
commands, as it provides a consistent interface between the shell and
drivers.

Execute a Command
-----------------

To run a database command, you must specify the command and any relevant
parameters in a document, then pass this document to a
command execution method. The {+driver-short+} provides the following methods
to run database commands:

- ``command()``, which returns the command response as a
``Document`` type. You can use this method with any database command.
- ``runCursorCommand()``, which returns the command response as an iterable
``RunCommandCursor`` type. You can use this method only if your database command
returns multiple result documents.

The following code shows how you can use the ``command()``
method to run the ``hello`` command, which returns information about
the current member's role in the replica set, on a database:

.. code-block:: javascript

const result = await myDB.command({ hello: 1 });

For a full list of database commands and corresponding parameters, see
the :ref:`Additional Information section <addl-info-runcommand>`.

.. _kotlin-command-options:

Command Options
---------------

You can specify optional command behavior for the ``command()``
and ``runCursorCommand()`` methods.

The ``command()`` method accepts a ``RunCommandOptions`` object. To learn
more about the ``RunCommandOptions`` type, see the `API documentation <{+api+}/types/RunCommandOptions.html>`__.

The ``runCursorCommand() method`` accepts a ``RunCursorCommandOptions``
object. To learn more about the ``RunCursorCommandOptions`` type, see
the `API documentation <{+api+}/types/RunCursorCommandOptions.html>`__.

Starting in version 6.0 of the {+driver-short+}, you can pass only the
following options to the ``command()`` method:

- ``comment``
- ``enableUtf8Validation``
- ``raw``
- ``readPreference``
- ``session``

You can set more options in the document that you pass to the ``command()`` method. To
learn more about a command and the options that it accepts, locate the command and follow
the link on the :manual:`Database Commands </reference/command/>` section of the Server
manual.

The following code shows how to specify a ``grantRolesToUser`` command
that executes with a ``majority`` write concern:

.. code-block:: javascript
:emphasize-lines: 4

const commandDoc = {
grantRolesToUser: "user011",
roles: [ "readWrite" ],
writeConcern: { w: "majority" }
};
const result = await myDB.command(commandDoc);

.. note:: Read Preference

The ``command()`` and ``runCursorCommand()`` methods ignore
the read preference setting you may have set on your ``Db`` object.
By default, these methods use the ``primary`` read preference.

The following code shows how to specify a read preference and pass it
as an option to the ``command()`` method:

.. code-block:: javascript

const commandOptions = { readPreference: "nearest" };
const result = await myDB.command(commandDoc, commandOptions);

For more information on read preference options, see :manual:`Read
Preference </core/read-preference/>` in the Server manual.

Response
--------

Each method returns a ``Document`` object or a cursor that contains
the response from the database after the command has been executed. Each
database command performs a different function, so the response content
can vary across commands. However, every response contains documents
with the following fields:

.. list-table::
:header-rows: 1
:widths: 30 70

* - Field
- Description

* - <command result>
- Provides fields specific to the database command. For example,
``count`` returns the ``n`` field and ``explain`` returns the
``queryPlanner`` field.

* - ``ok``
- Indicates whether the command has succeeded (``1``)
or failed (``0``).

* - ``operationTime``
- Indicates the logical time of the operation. MongoDB uses the
logical time to order operations.
To learn more about logical time, see our
:website:`blog post about the Global Logical Clock </blog/post/transactions-background-part-4-the-global-logical-clock>`.

* - ``$clusterTime``
- Provides a document that returns the signed cluster time. Cluster time is a
logical time used for ordering of operations.

The document contains the following fields:

- ``clusterTime``, which is the timestamp of the highest known cluster time for the member.
- ``signature``, which is a document that contains the hash of the cluster time and the ID
of the key used to sign the cluster time.

Example
-------

The following code shows how you can use the ``runCursorCommand()`` method to
run the ``checkMetadataConsistency`` command on the ``testDB`` database
and iterate through the results:

.. literalinclude:: /code-snippets/crud/runCommand.js
:language: javascript
:dedent:
:start-after: start-runcommand
:end-before: end-runcommand

Output
~~~~~~

The output contains the contents of the cursor object. The documents
describe any metadata inconsistencies in the database:

.. code-block:: javascript

{
type: ...,
description: ...,
details: {
namespace: ...,
info: ...
}
}
{
type: ...,
description: ...,
details: {
namespace: ...,
collectionUUID: ...,
maxKeyObj: ...,
...
}
}

.. note::

If you store the command response in a cursor, you see only the
command result documents when you access the contents of the cursor. You won't
see the ``ok``, ``operationTime``, and ``$clusterTime`` fields.

.. _addl-info-runcommand:

Additional Information
----------------------

For more information about the concepts in this guide, see the following documentation:

- :manual:`db.runCommand() </reference/method/db.runCommand/>`
- :manual:`Database Commands </reference/command/>`
- :manual:`hello Command </reference/command/hello/>`
- :manual:`find Command </reference/command/find/>`
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