Mongo.startSession()

Definition

Mongo.startSession(<options>)

Starts a session for the connection. mongo assigns the session ID to commands associated with the session.

Important

mongo Shell Method

This page documents a mongo method. This is not the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers, such as Node.js. To use the database command, see the startSession command.

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

The startSession() method can take a document with session options. The options available are:

Field	Description
causalConsistency	Boolean. Enables or disables causal consistency for the session. Mongo.startSession() enables causalConsistency by default. After starting a session, you cannot modify its causalConsistency setting. Note The session may have causal consistency enabled even though the Mongo() connection object may have causal consistency disabled or vice versa. To set causal consistency on the connection object, see Mongo.setCausalConsistency().
readConcern	Document. Specifies the read concern. To modify the setting after starting a session, see Session.getOptions().setReadConcern().
readPreference	Document. Specifies the read preference. The readPreference document contains the mode field and the optional tags field: { mode: <string>, tags: <array> } To modify the setting after starting a session, see Session.getOptions().setReadPreference().
retryWrites	Boolean. Enables or disables the ability to retry writes upon encountering transient network errors. If you start the mongo shell with the --retryWrites option, retryWrites is enabled by default for Mongo.startSession(). After starting a session, you cannot modify its retryWrites setting.
writeConcern	Document. Specifies the write concern. To modify the setting after starting a session, see Session.getOptions().setWriteConcern().

Examples

The following starts a session with causal consistency and retryable writes enabled on the Mongo() connection object associated with the mongo shell's global db variable:

db = db.getMongo().startSession({retryWrites: true, causalConsistency: true}).getDatabase(db.getName());