Mongo Helper

This is a simple wrapper created to make it easier for us to prototype systems quickly with minimal errors. My priority here is to keep things simple, rather than giving the user a lot of options.

NOTE: Don't use this if you don't already know how to interact with MongoDB. Using Mongo Helper is no excuse for not understanding the underlying code.

Installing

You can either install it by adding the following dependency in package.json:

"dependencies": {
  "mongo-helper": "0.1.x"
}

and then running npm install or by running npm install mongoHelper in your project directory.

Usage

Now that you've installed mongoHelper, how can you use it?

Sadly, Mongo Helper can't read your mind (yet), so you'll need to provide it with some parameters about your particular needs. The simple way to require this is:

var mongoHelper = new (require('mongo-helper'))({Parameters: 'here'});

It's also possible (and might work better, depending on your project) to define a config object and pass that:

var mongoHelper = new (require('mongo-helper'))(config);

Mongo Helper takes the following parameters (if you don't include them, Mongo Helper will revert to a default value)

• serverAddress - The IP/Address of the MongoDB server (default: localhost)
• serverPort - Port used to connect to the mongoDB server (default: mongo.Connection.DEFAULT_PORT)
• serverOptions - Options to pass to the server (in an object literal) (default: {auto_reconnect: true})
  • You can find all possible options at the docs
• dbName - Name of the database you'll be using (default: test)
• dbOptions - Options to pass to the db constructor (in an object literal) (default: {safe: true})
  • All possible options
• url - If you wish to connect via a url provided (say, through MongoHQ) pass it through url

Insert

Insert takes three parameters: coll, query, and next.

• coll is a string representing the collection we want to insert query into
• query is the object to be inserted into the collection
• next is a function that will be called after the db operations finish. The database is closed before next is called, so you can call another db operation with next. err and results are passed to next in typical node style.

For example, if I wanted to insert {foo: 'bar'} into the foobar collection (and had required it like above, I would write:

mongoHelper.insert('foobar', {foo: 'bar'});

If I then wanted to run myFunc after that:

mongoHelper.insert('foobar', {foo: 'bar'}, myFunc);

Find

Like insert, find takes three parameters. The one change is that the results of the find statement will be passed to the function you input.

Remove

The number of entries removed is passed to next in the results variable.

Update

Update takes five parameters:

• coll and next are the same, with the number of updated entries being sent to next
• criteria is the query that mongo will use to find the entries to update
• update is the entry that will update the selected documents
• params are the parameters you want to pass to update. Option values

Tests