Printing all records in a mongoDB Collection Golang

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I've got a MongoDB Collection collection := db.Collection("JobBacklog") that I'm trying to print out into the console. The DB is in a Docker container and controlling it with a script written in Go.

From what I've been able to find from the mongo-go-driver https://godoc.org/github.com/mongodb/mongo-go-driver/mongo there is a way to do this but my code keeps returning document is nil when I know it isn't.

This is my code I'm using to try to iterate through a collection called JobBacklog

cur, err := collection.Find(context.Background(), nil)
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }
        defer cur.Close(context.Background())
        for cur.Next(context.Background()) {
            raw, err := cur.DecodeBytes()
            if err != nil {
                log.Fatal(err)
            }
            //print element data from collection
            fmt.Println("Element", raw, x)
        }
        if err := cur.Err(); err != nil {
            log.Fatal(err)
        }

I expect it to print out the contents of the collection which are: 

_id:5c2d34e36657ba3238374f9a
UID:"ALDK"
PROFILE:"B"
STATUS:"PENDING"
DEVICE:"2.2.2.2"

That is an example entry of the JobBacklog DB.

Full disclosure, the end goal for this is to find the last entry that was added to the collection, but I need to be able to read through the collection first.

I know I'm connected to the DB, I can add/find/delete entries, but the printing out of all in the collection is eluding me. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks!

go mongodb
2 Answers

The error message "document is nil' is about the filter in the Find(). Change the line

cur, err := collection.Find(context.Background(), nil)

to

cur, err := collection.Find(context.Background(), bson.D{{}})

should work.

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db.Collection("JobBacklog").find({},function(err,result){
console.log(result);
})
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