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mongo shell should accept mongodb:// URI for --host

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Done
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 3.3.12
    • Affects Version/s: 3.2.0
    • Component/s: Shell
    • Fully Compatible
    • v3.2
    • Platforms 17 (07/15/16), Platforms 18 (08/05/16), Platforms 2016-08-26

      The mongo shell accepts mongodb:// URI-style connection strings as a plain argument:

      $ /m/3.2.1/bin/mongo mongodb://genique:11111/test?replicaSet=replset
      MongoDB shell version: 3.2.1
      connecting to: mongodb://genique:11111/test?replicaSet=replset
      2016-01-30T00:55:35.554+1100 I NETWORK  [thread1] Starting new replica set monitor for replset/genique:11111
      2016-01-30T00:55:35.554+1100 I NETWORK  [ReplicaSetMonitorWatcher] starting
      2016-01-30T00:55:35.555+1100 I NETWORK  [thread1] changing hosts to replset/genique:11111,genique:11112 from replset/genique:11111
      >
      bye
      

      However, this format currently does not work if passed as the argument to the --host option:

      $ /m/3.2.1/bin/mongo --host mongodb://genique:11111/test?replicaSet=replset
      MongoDB shell version: 3.2.1
      connecting to: mongodb://genique:11111/test?replicaSet=replset/test
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.327+1100 I NETWORK  [thread1] Starting new replica set monitor for replset/test/genique:11111
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.327+1100 I NETWORK  [ReplicaSetMonitorWatcher] starting
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.328+1100 W NETWORK  [thread1] node: genique:11111 isn't a part of set: replset/test ismaster: { hosts: [ "genique:11111", "genique:11112" ], arbiters: [ "genique:11113" ], setName: "replset", setVersion: 1, ismaster: true, secondary: false, primary: "genique:11111", me: "genique:11111", electionId: ObjectId('56ab6ab10000000000000005'), maxBsonObjectSize: 16777216, maxMessageSizeBytes: 48000000, maxWriteBatchSize: 1000, localTime: new Date(1454075740328), maxWireVersion: 4, minWireVersion: 0, ok: 1.0 }
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.328+1100 W NETWORK  [thread1] No primary detected for set replset/test
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.328+1100 I NETWORK  [thread1] All nodes for set replset/test are down. This has happened for 1 checks in a row. Polling will stop after 29 more failed checks
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.829+1100 W NETWORK  [thread1] node: genique:11111 isn't a part of set: replset/test ismaster: { hosts: [ "genique:11111", "genique:11112" ], arbiters: [ "genique:11113" ], setName: "replset", setVersion: 1, ismaster: true, secondary: false, primary: "genique:11111", me: "genique:11111", electionId: ObjectId('56ab6ab10000000000000005'), maxBsonObjectSize: 16777216, maxMessageSizeBytes: 48000000, maxWriteBatchSize: 1000, localTime: new Date(1454075740829), maxWireVersion: 4, minWireVersion: 0, ok: 1.0 }
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.829+1100 W NETWORK  [thread1] No primary detected for set replset/test
      2016-01-30T00:55:40.829+1100 I NETWORK  [thread1] All nodes for set replset/test are down. This has happened for 2 checks in a row. Polling will stop after 28 more failed checks
      2016-01-30T00:55:41.329+1100 W NETWORK  [thread1] node: genique:11111 isn't a part of set: replset/test ismaster: { hosts: [ "genique:11111", "genique:11112" ], arbiters: [ "genique:11113" ], setName: "replset", setVersion: 1, ismaster: true, secondary: false, primary: "genique:11111", me: "genique:11111", electionId: ObjectId('56ab6ab10000000000000005'), maxBsonObjectSize: 16777216, maxMessageSizeBytes: 48000000, maxWriteBatchSize: 1000, localTime: new Date(1454075741329), maxWireVersion: 4, minWireVersion: 0, ok: 1.0 }
      2016-01-30T00:55:41.329+1100 W NETWORK  [thread1] No primary detected for set replset/test
      2016-01-30T00:55:41.329+1100 I NETWORK  [thread1] All nodes for set replset/test are down. This has happened for 3 checks in a row. Polling will stop after 27 more failed checks
      ^C
      

      But --host accepts all other valid connection specifications, ie:

      • mongo --host hostname
      • mongo --host hostname:port
      • mongo --host replsetname/seedhostname1:port,seedhostname2:port,...
      • mongo --host /tmp/mongodb-XXXXX.sock

      Therefore, it's reasonable to expect that

      • mongo --host mongodb://...

      should also work, with the same behaviour as when --host is not used.

      The problem appears to be that the dbname specified by a plain argument (which defaults to "test") gets appended to the --host argument (as well as a slash). For the traditional forms of --host (listed above), this makes sense because they can't specify the dbname. So appending the dbname to --host gives the corresponding plain argument, eg. "mongo --host hostname:port dbname" is equivalent to "mongo hostname:port/dbname". But this doesn't make sense for the URI format, because it has its own way of specifying the dbname. So a simple fix should be to avoid appending "/dbname" if the argument to --host starts with "mongodb://".

            Assignee:
            matt.cotter Matt Cotter
            Reporter:
            kevin.pulo@mongodb.com Kevin Pulo
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