- In mongoDB the data’s are displayed with the formatted alignment way using the pretty().
- Configures the cursor to display results in an easy-to-read format.
db.collection.find(<query>).pretty()
- In mongoDB we quickly format the printing result sets with proper formatting in the mongo interactive shell using pretty() function.
db.wikitechy4.find().pretty()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5731e045daa4a0bc932a2ff8"), "name" : "data" }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5731e258daa4a0bc932a2ff9"),
"websitename" : "www.wikitechy.com",
"details" : "learn mongodb basics and step by step",
"author" : "venkat"
}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5731e296daa4a0bc932a2ffa"),
"websitename" : "www.wikitechy.com",
"details" : "learn mongodb basics and step by step",
"author”: "venkat"
}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5731e2eadaa4a0bc932a2ffb"),
"websitename" : "www.wikitechy.com",
"details" : "next row inserted",
"articlecount" : "40",
"author" : "jln"
}
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5731e56ddaa4a0bc932a2ffc"),
"websitename" : "www.wikitechy.com",
"rowdetails" : "last row updated",
"author" : "arun",
"comments" : [ {
"user" : "john",
"message" : "article is good",
"place" : "new york"
} ]
}
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- Here in this statement, we display the data in the collection “wikitechy4” using find().pretty() rich query in order to display the results in an easy-to-read format.