I would like to connect to the database specified in the connection string, without specifying it again in GetDatabase.
For example, if I have a connection string like this;
mongodb://localhost/mydb
I would like to be able to db.GetCollection("mycollection") from mydb.
This would allow the database name to be configured easily in the app.config file.
Update:
MongoServer.Create is obsolete now (thanks to @aknuds1). Instead this use following code:
var _server = new MongoClient(connectionString).GetServer();
It's easy. You should first take database name from connection string and then get database by name. Complete example:
var connectionString = "mongodb://localhost:27020/mydb";
//take database name from connection string
var _databaseName = MongoUrl.Create(connectionString).DatabaseName;
var _server = MongoServer.Create(connectionString);
//and then get database by database name:
_server.GetDatabase(_databaseName);
Important: If your database and auth database are different, you can add a authSource= query parameter to specify a different auth database. (thank you to @chrisdrobison)
NOTE If you are using the database segment as the initial database to use, but the username and password specified are defined in a different database, you can use the authSource option to specify the database in which the credential is defined. For example, mongodb://user:pass@hostname/db1?authSource=userDb would authenticate the credential against the userDb database instead of db1.
In this moment with the last version of the C# driver (2.3.0) the only way I found to get the database name specified in connection string is this:
var connectionString = @"mongodb://usr:[email protected],srv2.acme.net,srv3.acme.net/dbName?replicaSet=rset";
var mongoUrl = new MongoUrl(connectionString);
var dbname = mongoUrl.DatabaseName;
var db = new MongoClient(mongoUrl).GetDatabase(dbname);
db.GetCollection<MyType>("myCollectionName");
With version 1.7 of the official 10gen driver, this is the current (non-obsolete) API:
const string uri = "mongodb://localhost/mydb";
var client = new MongoClient(uri);
var db = client.GetServer().GetDatabase(new MongoUrl(uri).DatabaseName);
var collection = db.GetCollection("mycollection");
The answer below is apparently obsolete now, but works with older drivers. See comments.
If you have the connection string you could also use MongoDatabase directly:
var db = MongoDatabase.Create(connectionString);
var coll = db.GetCollection("MyCollection");
