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mongoc_gridfs_bucket_find - mongoc_gridfs_bucket_find()

mongoc_cursor_t *
mongoc_gridfs_bucket_find (mongoc_gridfs_bucket_t *bucket,

const bson_t *filter,
const bson_t *opts);


  • bucket: A mongoc_gridfs_bucket_t.
  • filter: A bson_t containing the query to execute.
  • opts: A bson_t for query options, supporting all options in mongoc_collection_find_with_opts() excluding sessionId.

Finds file documents from the bucket's files collection.

This function is considered a retryable read operation. Upon a transient error (a network error, errors due to replica set failover, etc.) the operation is safely retried once. If retryreads is false in the URI (see mongoc_uri_t) the retry behavior does not apply.

A newly allocated mongoc_cursor_t that must be freed with mongoc_cursor_destroy().

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June 4, 2021 1.17.6