MONGOC_DATABASE_GET_COLLECTION(3)

💅 MONGOC_DATABASE_GET_COLLECTION 💅

okay bestie, so this is a page from the libmongoc manual, and the star of the show is mongoc_database_get_collection — it's giving "let me make you a whole new collection object" energy and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

     mongoc_collection_t *
     mongoc_database_get_collection (mongoc_database_t *database,
                                     const char *name);

so what it does is literally just allocate a brand-new mongoc_collection_t structure for the collection named name that lives inside database. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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🫶 RETURNS 🫶

you get back a newly allocated mongoc_collection_t, and bestie listen to me — you must free it with mongoc_collection_destroy(). no cap. if you don't, that's a memory leak and we don't do those here 💀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — yeah, the MongoDB girlies wrote this one 💜

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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mwah 💋 that's the whole page! this one's from libmongoc version 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — go forth and allocate responsibly, bestie 🧚✨