MongoDB and MongoJS - can't get runCommand to

Question

My goal is to use MongoDB's (2.4.4) text command from Node. It works fine from the command line. Based on this previous SO issue: Equivalent to mongo shell db.collection.runCommand() in Node.js, I tried using MongoJS (0.7.17) but can't make it go. Here is the code:

mongojs = require('mongojs');
var products = mongojs('localhost:27017/mydb').collection('products');
products.runCommand('text', {search: 'a'}, function (err, docs) {
   ...
});

docs returns undefined and err is null. I can execute a normal function such as products.find() fine... and I can execute the search on the MongoDB command line. Anyone know how to make this go?

BTW, here is what docs contains in the callback:

{
    "queryDebugString": "||||||",
    "language": "english",
    "results": [],
    "stats": {
        "nscanned": 0,
        "nscannedObjects": 0,
        "n": 0,
        "nfound": 0,
        "timeMicros": 55
    },
    "ok": 1
}

BTW, if there's another approach to make this work with just the normal native driver, I'm fine with that.

Answer 1

Using the native driver I can run a command off of the db object as follows:

var MongoClient = require("mongodb").MongoClient;
MongoClient.connect(database, function (err, db) {
    if (!err) {
        db.command({ distinct: "Messages", key: "session" }, function (err, result) {
            //more code here
        });
    }
});

I noticed you are running the command off of the collection object, that might be the problem.