I'm trying to learn Go API development. I have a MongoDB instance running in a Docker container. I'm trying to follow a few guides but am failing on simple queries. I don't fully understand the use of BSON and JSON tags here. I do know what those terms mean. So here is my code.
import (
"fmt"
"time"
"gopkg.in/mgo.v2/bson"
)
const (
hosts = "localhost:27017"
database = "my_database"
username = "dev1"
password = "password123"
collection = "users"
)
type users struct {
user string `bson:"user" json:"user"`
data string
}
func main() {
fmt.Println("Starting Application!")
info := &mgo.DialInfo{
Addrs: []string{hosts},
Timeout: 60 * time.Second,
Database: database,
Username: username,
Password: password,
}
session, err1 := mgo.DialWithInfo(info)
if err1 != nil {
panic(err1)
}
defer session.Close()
col := session.DB(database).C(collection)
var user users
var books []users
var username = "cat"
col.Insert(&users{user: "dog", data: "blah"})
err3 := col.Find(bson.M{"user": username}).One(&user)
fmt.Println(user)
fmt.Println(err3)
count, err2 := col.Count()
if err2 != nil {
panic(err2)
}
fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf("Messages count: %d", count))
fmt.Println(user)
col.Find(bson.M{}).All(&books)
fmt.Println(books)
}
Basically I'm getting empty objects on the print line but am getting the correct Message count. I inserted the objects with robomongo if that helps.

"cat"when you only inserted"dog"? I mean it "might" be there already, but as a self contained example your code seems to contradict itself and is looking for something different than you actually insert. So if you are writing to the correct source, then where is"dog"? Should this not indicate that you are actually writing to somewhere different?