MONGOC_CLIENT...WITH_SERVER_ID(3)

💅 MONGOC_CLIENT...WITH_SERVER_ID(3)

okay so bestie, this one lives in the libmongoc family (yes, that libmongoc, three-thousand-and-something pages of C API and we're reading this one together, love that for us) ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool
mongoc_client_command_simple_with_server_id (
   mongoc_client_t *client,
   const char *db_name,
   const bson_t *command,
   const mongoc_read_prefs_t *read_prefs,
   uint32_t server_id,
   bson_t *reply,
   bson_error_t *error);

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what this icon actually does: it executes a command on a specific server, using the database and the command spec you hand it. That's the whole vibe — you pick the server, it runs the thing there. 💅

🚨 one thing to clock: this function is not considered a retryable read operation. so like… don't count on it retrying for you, it's not that girl.

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• client — a mongoc_client_t. your client, your main character.
• db_name — the name of the database to run the command on.
• read_prefs — an optional mongoc_read_prefs_t. optional!! she can be NULL, she doesn't have to show up.
• server_id — an opaque id specifying which server to use. opaque means don't go peeking inside it, just pass it along bestie 🦋
• reply — a maybe-NULL pointer to overwritable storage for a bson_t to contain the results. "maybe-NULL" fr fr, it's allowed to be NULL, and the storage is overwritable, so she'll write over whatever's in there.
• error — an optional location for a bson_error_t, or a NULL. again: optional, NULL is fine 🙈

⭐ RETURNS ⭐

Returns true if successful. Returns false and sets error if there are invalid arguments or a server or network error. classic.

💀 important caveat, don't skip it: this function does not check the server response for a write concern error or write concern timeout. so like… a write concern situation will not get flagged by this one. it's not looking. it's simply not looking. you've been warned 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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and that's the page, bestie 🧚 go forth and specify your servers responsibly. this was libmongoc version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — mwah, talk later 💖🎀