SERVER-32065 support retryWrites URI param in shell

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/shell/mongo.js b/src/mongo/shell/mongo.js
index 2a477659eb8..e789e284795 100644
--- a/src/mongo/shell/mongo.js
+++ b/src/mongo/shell/mongo.js
@@ -417,7 +417,11 @@ Mongo.prototype.getClusterTime = function() {
     return this._clusterTime;
 };
 
-Mongo.prototype.startSession = function startSession(options) {
+Mongo.prototype.startSession = function startSession(options = {}) {
+    // Set retryWrites if not already set on options.
+    if (!options.hasOwnProperty("retryWrites") && this.hasOwnProperty("_retryWrites")) {
+        options.retryWrites = this._retryWrites;
+    }
     return new DriverSession(this, options);
 };