mongodb querying regex with casbah fluid syntax

Question

I am having an issue with querying against a regex with fluid dsl syntax, i am trying to say something like ("id" -> foo) using fluid. foo is a regex, so there is no $elemMatch on regex so I am getting "No implicit view available from Regex to DBObject".

so, currently i have to structure my query in the following way:

("someval" $gte 5) ++ ("id" -> foo) , I have to put id portion on the end because it's not going through the dsl. What I would like is something like

("id" [WHAT OP HERE?] foo.r) ++ ("someval" $gte 5)

How do i accomplish this? Please note that I know how to use "regular" ("foo" -> MongoDbObject(... syntax, I would like to use the dsl to do the same thing.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This isn't just an issue for regular expressions but for any fluid syntax that does an equality measure eg:

("name" -> "rozza") ++ ("forum" -> "stackoverflow")

This also fails, currently you have to wrap in a MongoDBObject instance.