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I'm trying to understand how to use MongoDB with FuelPHP.. Can someone clerify how to select a document based on its ObjectID? I understand that the support for MongoDB is minimal, but I'm hitting such a basic problem that I fear I may be doing something wrong. For example, I have a collection called 'things'. I want to select a thing based on its object id. How come the query below does not produce a result? I know that an object does exist with the given ID:

$mongodb = \Mongo_Db::instance('default');

$mongodb->where(array('_id' => '4ed5dd5e76621f7758000000'));

$result = $mongodb->get('things');

Log::debug('Found this thing: ' . print_r($result, true));

I looked at the core/classes/mongo/db.php and it seems like all of the where conditions are cast to (string), but as far as I've read, the _id is actually an object of type MongoId. I think you guys understand what I'm trying to say here, so how do you guys do it? Shouldn't the where() methods for this class pickup the _id key and treat the value as a MongoId?, Perhaps reshaping the where to something like (which appears to work for me):

public function where($wheres = array())
{
    foreach ($wheres as $wh => $val)
    {
        Log::debug("WHERE: $wh => $val");
        if($wh == '_id')
        {
            $this->wheres[$wh] = new \MongoId($val);
        } else
        {
            $this->wheres[$wh] = (string) $val;
        }

    }
    return $this;
}