MongoDB Go Driver

The MongoDB supported driver for Go.

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• Requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Bugs / Feature Reporting
• Testing / Development
• Continuous Integration
• License

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Requirements

• Go 1.10 or higher. We aim to support the latest supported versions of go.
• MongoDB 2.6 and higher.

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Installation

The recommended way to get started using the MongoDB Go driver is by using dep to install the dependency in your project.

dep ensure -add "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo"

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Usage

To get started with the driver, import the mongo package, create a mongo.Client:

import (
    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo"
    "go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/mongo/options"
)

client, err := mongo.NewClient(options.Client().ApplyURI("mongodb://localhost:27017"))

And connect it to your running MongoDB server:

ctx, _ := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
err = client.Connect(ctx)

To do this in a single step, you can use the Connect function:

ctx, _ := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
client, err := mongo.Connect(ctx, options.Client().ApplyURI("mongodb://localhost:27017"))

Calling Connect does not block for server discovery. If you wish to know if a MongoDB server has been found and connected to, use the Ping method:

ctx, _ = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Second)
err = client.Ping(ctx, readpref.Primary())

To insert a document into a collection, first retrieve a Database and then Collection instance from the Client:

collection := client.Database("testing").Collection("numbers")

The Collection instance can then be used to insert documents:

ctx, _ = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
res, err := collection.InsertOne(ctx, bson.M{"name": "pi", "value": 3.14159})
id := res.InsertedID

Several query methods return a cursor, which can be used like this:

ctx, _ = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
cur, err := collection.Find(ctx, bson.D{})
if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
defer cur.Close(ctx)
for cur.Next(ctx) {
   var result bson.M
   err := cur.Decode(&result)
   if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) }
   // do something with result....
}
if err := cur.Err(); err != nil {
  log.Fatal(err)
}

For methods that return a single item, a SingleResult instance is returned:

var result struct {
    Value float64
}
filter := bson.M{"name": "pi"}
ctx, _ = context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
err = collection.FindOne(ctx, filter).Decode(&result)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
// Do something with result...

Additional examples and documentation can be found under the examples directory and on the MongoDB Documentation website.

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Bugs / Feature Reporting

New Features and bugs can be reported on jira: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/GODRIVER

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Testing / Development

The driver tests can be run against several database configurations. The most simple configuration is a standalone mongod with no auth, no ssl, and no compression. To run these basic driver tests, make sure a standalone MongoDB server instance is running at localhost:27017. To run the tests, you can run make (on Windows, run nmake). This will run coverage, run go-lint, run go-vet, and build the examples.

Testing Different Topologies

To test a replica set or sharded cluster, set MONGODB_URI="<connection-string>" for the make command. For example, for a local replica set named rs1 comprised of three nodes on ports 27017, 27018, and 27019:

MONGODB_URI="mongodb://localhost:27017,localhost:27018,localhost:27018/?replicaSet=rs1" make

Testing Auth and SSL

To test authentication and SSL, first set up a MongoDB cluster with auth and SSL configured. Testing authentication requires a user with the root role on the admin database. The Go Driver repository comes with example certificates in the data/certificates directory. These certs can be used for testing. Here is an example command that would run a mongod with SSL correctly configured for tests:

mongod \
--auth \
--sslMode requireSSL \
--sslPEMKeyFile $(pwd)/data/certificates/server.pem \
--sslCAFile $(pwd)/data/certificates/ca.pem \
--sslWeakCertificateValidation

To run the tests with make, set MONGO_GO_DRIVER_CA_FILE to the location of the CA file used by the database, set MONGODB_URI to the connection string of the server, set AUTH=auth, and set SSL=ssl. For example:

AUTH=auth SSL=ssl MONGO_GO_DRIVER_CA_FILE=$(pwd)/data/certificates/ca.pem  MONGODB_URI="mongodb://user:password@localhost:27017/?authSource=admin" make

Notes:

• The --sslWeakCertificateValidation flag is required on the server for the test suite to work correctly.
• The test suite requires the auth database to be set with ?authSource=admin, not /admin.

Testing Compression

The MongoDB Go Driver supports wire protocol compression using Snappy, zLib, or zstd. To run tests with wire protocol compression, set MONGO_GO_DRIVER_COMPRESSOR to snappy, zlib, or zstd. For example:

MONGO_GO_DRIVER_COMPRESSOR=snappy make

Ensure the --networkMessageCompressors flag on mongod or mongos includes zlib if testing zLib compression.

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Feedback

The MongoDB Go Driver is not feature complete, so any help is appreciated. Check out the project page for tickets that need completing. See our contribution guidelines for details.

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Continuous Integration

Commits to master are run automatically on evergreen.

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Thanks and Acknowledgement

@ashleymcnamara - Mongo Gopher Artwork

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License

The MongoDB Go Driver is licensed under the Apache License.