1 00:00:06,790 --> 00:00:08,910 We come back in this video. 2 00:00:08,910 --> 00:00:14,700 Let's see how we can find a single record that is a single user. 3 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,340 So back to the documentation. 4 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:19,800 We have couple of methods to get it done. 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,490 We can use find by ID or find one. 6 00:00:23,580 --> 00:00:30,030 So under queries, we have a method called find one to find a single record. 7 00:00:30,060 --> 00:00:42,960 And you also have one called Find by ID so we can search here sets find by ID and here you go, model 8 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:44,720 dot find by ID. 9 00:00:44,730 --> 00:00:47,160 If you click on that, look at the agreement. 10 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,830 It takes pass in what is called any meaning any property. 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:01:00,300 It can be name, it can be title, it can be ID, but most often you use the ID because the ID is unique 12 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:03,540 because you may have a record with the same name or title. 13 00:01:03,540 --> 00:01:07,350 In that case we are going to get not what you want. 14 00:01:07,350 --> 00:01:14,340 So ideally we use the ID to find a particular user, so let's go ahead and do that. 15 00:01:14,340 --> 00:01:22,410 So back to the code here and let me comment this one and let's have a beautiful comment here. 16 00:01:22,410 --> 00:01:26,880 Says, find a single record. 17 00:01:27,270 --> 00:01:37,890 So you bring in the student model dot find by ID, fine by ID and here I'll pass in what I want to find. 18 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:47,070 That is an ID so here I can provide and that's called ID and then the name of the ID or I can quickly 19 00:01:47,070 --> 00:01:49,140 pass in the ID. 20 00:01:49,170 --> 00:01:52,740 If I'm using the ID, I can pass in here directly. 21 00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:54,780 So back to my terminal here. 22 00:01:54,930 --> 00:02:03,810 I want to find this student by this ID called John, so I'll copy the ID here and now back to my method 23 00:02:03,810 --> 00:02:04,170 here. 24 00:02:04,170 --> 00:02:12,750 I will paste it inside and let me handle the promise as that is going to be the actual student. 25 00:02:14,540 --> 00:02:15,460 All right. 26 00:02:15,460 --> 00:02:18,880 And then let me console.log the student. 27 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:28,310 If something goes wrong again, let's catch it as the error. 28 00:02:32,930 --> 00:02:33,380 All right. 29 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:39,020 So let's go ahead and run the file and let's see if you're going to get that particular student. 30 00:02:41,550 --> 00:02:47,730 And indeed we have got the student with the ID of this. 31 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,840 We can also use find one to find a single record. 32 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:52,860 So here we go. 33 00:02:52,890 --> 00:02:55,530 So here, let me comment this one. 34 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:04,590 The difference here is going to be the method going to be find one and find one pass in object with 35 00:03:04,590 --> 00:03:05,960 key value per. 36 00:03:05,970 --> 00:03:07,950 So here you're going to make find one. 37 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:14,370 Let's say the age or the name to be more specific, is equal to John. 38 00:03:14,850 --> 00:03:16,260 So let's save it. 39 00:03:16,260 --> 00:03:18,360 And now back to the terminal. 40 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:22,860 Let me run the file again and let's see the result. 41 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:25,230 And we have John. 42 00:03:25,230 --> 00:03:26,230 Indeed. 43 00:03:26,250 --> 00:03:30,030 So this how we can fetch a single record.