Error importing JSON data involving timestamps and objectIDs

[Magestic_Chicen]

Ok so below is an image showing the “new” and “old” object ID and timestamp format mongodb uses. Old is referring to the imported json data and new is referring to data i have created.

Now the main issue i have with this difference is that i cannot ammend the imported data but i can created new data and read the imported - And i believe the reason is because the imported data for some reason doesn’t have the ObjectId() or ISODate() functions just the string.

So i want to find a way to add those or import it such that it imports usable - and yes, I have already tried manually adding ISODate() and ObjectId then reimporting it to match the new data, that just throws JSON errors and doesnt properly import.

Thanks!

[Magestic_Chicen]

For added clarification*

I imported a json file that contained my mongodb database using a mongoimport --collection jsons --jsonArray -d main -v databasemain.json command.
The old is the imported data new is created data
I cannot edit or add to the imported data

[Yilmaz_Durmaz (Yılmaz Durmaz)]

it would be better if you included those JSON error messages so to tell what is wrong.

_id field is not required to be a proper ObjectId to insert the data, as your updatedAt field not being a Date. it will just be a bit different to index that document. You may try importing your data to a temporary collection, then use other query methods to change these strings into proper ObjectId and Date formats to insert into a new collection, then drop the old one.

[Magestic_Chicen]

I fixed it by removing and reinserting all of the data