Field position changes

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Hi everyone,

I’m using MongoDB Change Streams to monitor updates to documents in my collection. I noticed that even when the value of a field doesn’t change, but the position of the field in the document changes (possibly due to a replaceOne() operation), a change event is still triggered.

  • Is this expected behavior?
  • Does MongoDB treat field reordering as a meaningful change in the BSON serialization?
  • Is there a recommended way to avoid triggering Change Stream events when only the field order changes but values remain the same?

Any insights or best practices would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance.