DOCSP-41335: Id field alias

docs/eloquent-models/model-class.txt

@@ -302,12 +302,8 @@ including this trait, you can make the third-party class compatible with
 MongoDB.
 
 When you apply the ``DocumentModel`` trait to a model class, you must
-declare the following properties in your class:
-
-- ``$primaryKey = '_id'``, because the ``_id`` field uniquely
-  identifies MongoDB documents
-- ``$keyType = 'string'``, because the {+odm-short+} casts MongoDB
-  ``ObjectId`` values to type ``string``
+set the  ``$keyType`` property to ``'string'`` as the {+odm-short+}
+casts MongoDB ``ObjectId`` values to type ``string``.
 
 Extended Class Example
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

docs/includes/query-builder/QueryBuilderTest.php

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 use Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder;
 use Illuminate\Pagination\AbstractPaginator;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
+use MongoDB\BSON\ObjectId;
 use MongoDB\BSON\Regex;
 use MongoDB\Laravel\Collection;
 use MongoDB\Laravel\Tests\TestCase;
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ public function testOrWhere(): void
         // begin query orWhere
         $result = DB::connection('mongodb')
             ->table('movies')
-            ->where('year', 1955)
+            ->where('id', new ObjectId('573a1398f29313caabce9682'))
             ->orWhere('title', 'Back to the Future')
             ->get();
         // end query orWhere

docs/query-builder.txt

@@ -176,15 +176,28 @@ Logical OR Example
 
 The following example shows how to chain the ``orWhere()``
 query builder method to retrieve documents from the
-``movies`` collection that either match the ``year``
-value of ``1955`` or match the ``title`` value ``"Back to the Future"``:
+``movies`` collection in which the value of the ``_id``
+field is ``ObjectId('573a1398f29313caabce9682')`` or
+the value of the ``title`` field is ``"Back to the Future"``:
 
 .. literalinclude:: /includes/query-builder/QueryBuilderTest.php
    :language: php
    :dedent:
    :start-after: begin query orWhere
    :end-before: end query orWhere
 
+.. note::
+
+   You can use the ``id`` alias in your queries to represent the
+   ``_id`` field in MongoDB documents, as shown in the preceding
+   code. When you run a find operation using the query builder, {+odm-short+}
+   automatically converts between ``id`` and ``_id``. This provides better
+   compatibility with Laravel, as the framework assumes that each record has a
+   primary key named ``id`` by default.
+
+   Because of this behavior, you cannot have two separate ``id`` and ``_id``
+   fields in your documents.
+
 .. _laravel-query-builder-logical-and:
 
 Logical AND Example

docs/upgrade.txt

@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ This library version introduces the following breaking changes:
 - In query results, the library converts BSON ``UTCDateTime`` objects to ``Carbon``
   date classes, applying the default timezone.
 
+- ``id`` is an alias for the ``_id`` field in MongoDB documents, and the library
+  automatically converts between ``id`` and ``_id`` when querying data. Because
+  of this behavior, you cannot have two separate ``id`` and ``_id`` fields in your
+  documents.
+
 .. _laravel-breaking-changes-v4.x:
 
 Version 4.x Breaking Changes