added print

[danlangford]

informing people that a print() method exists. useful when writing scripts to pluck out specific data that can be pipped to other command line tools

[tychoish]

The print() method is actually not MongoDB specific and is available because the mongo shell provides complete access to its underlying JavaScript environment. As a general rule, we avoid documenting JavaScript directly. I hope this makes sense, please feel free to ask any questions you have about this strategy. Thanks for your efforts here!

Regards,
sam

[danlangford]

does your documentation state which JS environment the mongo shell is built upon? the print() method is not native to nodeJS, and in a Chrome console that method pulls up the dialog to print the page. In fact most javascripters are use to using console.log() which is not available in your underlying JS environment. maybe a link could be provided to another page of documentation provided by the underlying JS environment. what environment is it?

[tychoish]

Starting in version 2.4 MongoDB uses the V8 javascript engine. Earlier versions of MongoDB used SpiderMonkey.

I should correct my earlier statement: while this function is a native function from v8, its something that MongoDB explicitly injects into the scope of the v8 environment. We should probably document this, but we should also coordinate this with the other methods injected into the environment that we don't document. I'll open a new ticket or append an item to an existing ticket.

Cheers,
sam