Mongoose find() not working with $not query [duplicate]

Question

Here is my find request:

Recipe.find({'author.id': {$not: {user}}}

Here is the documentation: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/query/not/index.html

Here is the error:

Error: Can't use $not with ObjectId.

I want to find all Recipes that are not authored by the current user. The arguments are working fine, so that's not the issue. There must be a way to do this, or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You should use $ne

Recipe.find({ "author.id": { "$ne": user }});