SERVER-54132: Review usages of config.collections 'dropped' field

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/shell/collection.js b/src/mongo/shell/collection.js
index 2043fcfbe74..fa495abde73 100644
--- a/src/mongo/shell/collection.js
+++ b/src/mongo/shell/collection.js
@@ -1123,8 +1123,10 @@ DBCollection.autocomplete = function(obj) {
  * @return {boolean}
  */
 DBCollection.prototype._isSharded = function() {
+    // Checking for 'dropped: {$ne: true}' to ensure mongo shell compatibility with earlier versions
+    // of the server
     return !!this._db.getSiblingDB("config").collections.countDocuments(
-        {_id: this._fullName, dropped: false});
+        {_id: this._fullName, dropped: {$ne: true}});
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/mongo/shell/utils_sh.js b/src/mongo/shell/utils_sh.js
index c165ab1695c..cb0bf13badd 100644
--- a/src/mongo/shell/utils_sh.js
+++ b/src/mongo/shell/utils_sh.js
@@ -744,6 +744,8 @@ function printShardingStatus(configDB, verbose) {
             configDB.collections.find({_id: new RegExp("^" + RegExp.escape(db._id) + "\\.")})
                 .sort({_id: 1})
                 .forEach(function(coll) {
+                    // Checking for '!dropped' to ensure mongo shell compatibility with earlier
+                    // versions of the server
                     if (!coll.dropped) {
                         output(3, coll._id);
                         output(4, "shard key: " + tojson(coll.key));