Can't get req.query.name to collection.find

[onoff0]

Hi, I can't get req.query.name to pass in the collection.find I expose the problem below:

let query = req.query.name;
from:

http://localhost:3000/search?name=5044

the funny thing is that it works perfectly well in this way:

router.get('/search', async (req, res)=> {

if (!req.query.name)
return res.render("search", {
  title: "NodeMongo Search",
  userlist:[],
});

else {
  const url = 'localhost:27017/local'; // Connection URL
  const db = require('monk')(url);
  const collection = db.get('startup_log')
  try{
    
let query = 5044; //assigning the pid directly to the variable query
const userlist = await collection.find({pid:query});
res.render("search",{userlist});
  }catch(e){
  console.log(e);
}}
});

so assigning 5044 to the query variable run perfectly, but:

router.get('/search', async (req, res)=> {

if (!req.query.name)
return res.render("search", {
  title: "NodeMongo Search",
  userlist:[],
});

else {
  const url = 'localhost:27017/local'; // Connection URL
  const db = require('monk')(url);
  const collection = db.get('startup_log')
  try{
    
let query = req.query.name;
const userlist = await collection.find({pid:query});
res.render("search",{userlist});
  }catch(e){
  console.log(e);
}}
});

assigning the query req.query.name doesn't want to know, do you have any ideas about it?

[mathieudutour]

req.query.name is a string or a string array while 5044 is a number. parseInt(req.query.name) should work. Please use stackoverflow for questions like that

[onoff0]

thank you!