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Troubleshoot the Map Function

Troubleshoot the Map Function¶

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Verify Key and Value Pairs

The map function is a JavaScript function that associates or “maps” a value with a key and emits the key and value pair during a map-reduce operation.

Note

Starting in version 4.2.1, MongoDB deprecates the use of BSON type JavaScript code with scope (BSON type 15) for the map, reduce, and finalize functions. Using JavaScript code with scope with these functions will print a warning to the log. Instead, use BSON type String (BSON type 2) or BSON type JavaScript (BSON type 13). To pass constant values which will be accessible in the map, reduce, and finalize functions, use the scope parameter.

Verify Key and Value Pairs¶

To verify the key and value pairs emitted by the map function, write your own emit function.

Consider a collection orders that contains documents of the following prototype:

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{
     _id: ObjectId("50a8240b927d5d8b5891743c"),
     cust_id: "abc123",
     ord_date: new Date("Oct 04, 2012"),
     status: 'A',
     price: 250,
     items: [ { sku: "mmm", qty: 5, price: 2.5 },
              { sku: "nnn", qty: 5, price: 2.5 } ]
}

Define the map function that maps the price to the cust_id for each document and emits the cust_id and price pair:
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```
var map = function() {
    emit(this.cust_id, this.price);
};
```

Define the emit function to print the key and value:

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var emit = function(key, value) {
    print("emit");
    print("key: " + key + "  value: " + tojson(value));
}

Invoke the map function with a single document from the orders collection:

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var myDoc = db.orders.findOne( { _id: ObjectId("50a8240b927d5d8b5891743c") } );
map.apply(myDoc);

Verify the key and value pair is as you expected.
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```
emit
key: abc123 value:250
```

Invoke the map function with multiple documents from the orders collection:

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var myCursor = db.orders.find( { cust_id: "abc123" } );

while (myCursor.hasNext()) {
    var doc = myCursor.next();
    print ("document _id= " + tojson(doc._id));
    map.apply(doc);
    print();
}

Verify the key and value pairs are as you expected.