MongoDB-Cpp

A replacement for the mongo-cxx-driver that focuses on memory safety, speed, and ease of use. It uses the FastBSON library (https://github.com/Lumate/FastBSON-Cpp) to handle decoding and encoding BSON.

Prerequisites

This database driver requires the ZMQ libraries (and associated dependencies) and FastBSON. Build system requirements are CMake and a modern C++ compiler that is C++11 compliant.

Build Instructions

This software uses CMake as it's build system; as such out of source builds are preferred.

You should create a build directory in the source directory and cd to it.

To prepare for release (from the build directory) : cmake .. && make mongocpp

To run code coverage: cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug && make mongo_coverage

To generate Cobertura xml output for code coverage: cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug && make mongo_cobertura

Progress

This is an evolving work in progress; it implements the MongoDB wire protocol, and over time will evolve in both ease of use and power. The checklist at http://docs.mongodb.org/meta-driver/latest/legacy/mongodb-driver-requirements/ is used as a base.

What works?

CRUD Operations (Create, remove, update, destroy)
Database commands (through the runCommand function)
BSON (de/en)coding
Cursor support
closing exhausted cursors

What's left?

Authentication (not on any priority list)
Simplified wrappers around common commands
Graceful error handling (getting last error works, using it...)
hint(), explain(), count(), $where (se second todo)
profiling
replica sets/slave OK, etc
automatic reconnection (unsure what/how this means)

Getting Started

All database functions take additional parameters. See the function documentation for more information. In all examples, initialization lists of intitialization lists are bson::Documents

Creating a connection and connecting

mongo::MongoClient c;
c.connect("localhost"); //port is an optional string
// or
mongo::MongoClient c2("localhost", "27017"); //Again, port is optional

Finding elements in the DB

Finding a single element

const std::string FINDCOLL = "database.collection"
bson::Document d = c.findOne(FINDCOLL); // Find any single
bson::Document d = c.findOne(FINDCOLL, {{"a", 5}}); // Find one element matches {"a": 5}, second param is a bson::Document
bson::Document d = c.findOne(FINDCOLL, {{"a", 5}}, {{"a", 1}}); // Same as above, but only include the "a" field in the doc
bson::Document d = c.findOne(FINDCOLL, {{"a", 5}}, {{"a", 0}}); // Same as above, omit the "a" field (projections)

Finding all elements that matches

mongo::Cursor curr = c.find(FINDCOLL);
while (curr.more())
{
  bson::Document d =  curr.next();
}

Finding all elements takes the same parameters as findOne. See the function documentation for more details on the parameters

Inserting elements

const std::string INSCOLL = "database.collection";
c.insert(INSCOLL, {{"a", thing}});

Batch inserting is currently not supported (future work)

Removing elements

const std::string REMCOLL = "database.collection";
c.remove(REMCOLL, {{"a", thing}}); //remove a single element in the database that matches
c.remove(REMCOLL, {{"a", thing}}, true); //same as above
c.remove(REMCOLL, {{"a", thing}}, false); //Remove all elements that match

Updating elements

const std::string UPDCOLL = "database.collection";
c.update(UPDCOLL, {{"a", oldthing}}, {{"a", thing}});

Running database commands

const std::string DBNAME = "database";
bson::Document d = c.runCommand(DBNAME, {{"getLastError", 1}}); //Second parameter is formatted command

Commonly used commands will be wrapped in helper functions as progress continues

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