MONGOC_CLIENT_GET_COLLECTION(3)

💅 MONGOC_CLIENT_GET_COLLECTION(3) 💅

ok so this is a libmongoc moment and honestly? kind of iconic. we're grabbing a handle to a collection, bestie, that's the whole vibe.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mongoc_collection_t *
mongoc_client_get_collection (mongoc_client_t *client,
                              const char *db,
                              const char *collection);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what this does is: it hands you a newly allocated mongoc_collection_t for the collection named *collection, inside the database named *db. That's it. That's the whole function. Slay.

💡 TIP: Collections get created automatically on the MongoDB server the moment you insert the first document. So you do not need to manually create a collection. Like, at all. Not me saving you a whole extra step 🫶 no cap.

🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• client: A mongoc_client_t. ur main character.
• db: The name of the database containing the collection.
• collection: The name of the collection.

🎀 RETURNS 🎀

A newly allocated mongoc_collection_t that you should free with mongoc_collection_destroy() when you're done with it. literally please free it. don't leave it just sitting there 😭 it's giving memory leak energy and we are NOT about that.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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ok bye bestie, go forth and get ur collections 💖✨

this has been libmongoc version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — mwah, xoxo 🎀🦋