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David Salter

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In this post I’d like to show how to perform basic CRUD operations against a MongoDB database using the Java driver.

For this post, lets assume that we have a todo database with a collection of todo items. Each item has a task and a priority.

In terms of JSON notation, an example item would look like:

     {
  "_id" : { "$oid" : "4bffb75121eec88a67ff6ec8"} ,
  "task" : "Write Code" ,
  "priority" : "high"
}
    

Now that we have defined what we are storing in the database, lets have a look at how we connect to Mongo.

Connection to the database

To connect to a MongoDB database, we would use code similar to that below. In this code you can see that we are connecting to a database called todo and getting the collection called items. In MongoDB if neither of these items exist, they will be automatically created.

     Mongo mongo = new Mongo();
DB db = mongo.getDB("todo");
DBCollection items = db.getCollection("items");
    

Creating documents

To add a document to a collection, we use the insert() method of the collection.

     BasicDBObject doc1 = new BasicDBObject();
doc1.put("task", "Write Code");
doc1.put("priority", "high");
items.insert(doc1);
    

Retrieving documents

To retrieve documents from a collection, we can create a query and then iterate through it with a cursor.

     BasicDBObject query = new BasicDBObject();
query.put("priority", "highest");
DBCursor cursor = items.find(query);
// Print out "highest" priority items
while (cursor.hasNext()) {
    System.out.println(cursor.next());
}
     

    

This query will find all the objects in the collection that have a priority of highest. If we wanted to get all of the items in the collection, we would create the cursor without a query as shown below.

DBCursor cursor = items.find();

Updating documents

To update an object, we first have to get the object from the collection then we save it back into the collection.

     BasicDBObject findTestItemQuery = new BasicDBObject();
findTestItemQuery.put("task", "Test Code");
DBCursor testItemsCursor = items.find(findTestItemQuery);
if(testItemsCursor.hasNext()) {
    DBObject testCodeItem = testItemsCursor.next();
    testCodeItem.put("task", "Test and Review Code");
    items.save(testCodeItem);
}
    

Deleting Documents

Finally, to delete a document or set of documents, we use the remove method of the collection.

BasicDBObject deleteQuery = new BasicDBObject();
deleteQuery.put("priority", "highest");
DBCursor cursor = items.find(deleteQuery);
while (cursor.hasNext()) {
    DBObject item = cursor.next();
    items.remove(item);
}

From http://www.davidsalter.co.uk/1/post/2011/05/basic-java-crud-operations-with-mongodb.html

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Deleting Documents

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