mongodb validation_error ai_generated true

MongoServerError: document validation failure in strict mode

ID: mongodb/validation-level-strict

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82%Fix Rate
86%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

Strict validation rejects existing documents that dont match new schema.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Use validationLevel:"moderate" to only validate inserts and matching updates
  2. 88% success Migrate existing documents to match new schema before setting strict

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Set validationLevel to off 82% fail

    No validation at all

  2. Ignore validation errors 78% fail

    Data quality degrades