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cursor.next()

cursor.tryNext()

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-specific :driver:`MongoDB driver documentation </>`.

For the legacy mongo shell documentation, refer to the documentation for the corresponding MongoDB Server release:

• :v4.4:`mongo shell v4.4 </mongo>`
• mongo shell v4.2

Returns:The next document in the cursor returned by the db.collection.find() method or null.

Behavior

cursor.tryNext() is a special case of the cursor.next() method that returns the next element in the iteration if available or else null.

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