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MongoDB ObjectID and Guid

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mongodb
Domain
databases

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating Apache Drill's MongoDB handling and the code that renders ObjectID and .NET-format Guid values, then clarify the expected usable output format before implementing and validating the conversion.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
All my MongoDB collections has ObjectID and Guid (.Net Format). At the moment it is presented in escape Hex.

Describe the solution you'd like
Convert to some usable format especially the GUID.

Dominant language
Java
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