While using RockMongo in Openshift to import a json file into a MongoDB database, I came across an issue. The json was exported directly from another MongoDB without any modifications. Here is a snippet of the json data:
{ "_id" : "10352",
"author" : "8988607",
"country" : "...",
"views" : 1716,
"title" : "...",
"comments" : 1,
"likes" : 28,
"text" : "...",
"date" : { "$date" : 1278070740000 },
"approved" : "8480596" }
The error message received states:
exception: field names cannot start with $ [$date] at src/mongo/shell/collection.js:147
Since the json was directly exported from a different MongoDB, how can this problem be resolved now?