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cursor.tryNext()

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mongosh Method

This is a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for Node.js or other programming language specific driver methods.

In most cases, mongosh methods work the same way as the legacy mongo shell methods. However, some legacy methods are unavailable in mongosh.

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

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language specific MongoDB driver documentation.

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

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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