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MongoDB CRUD

Estimated time needed: 30 minutes

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

Create documents in MongoDB with the insert method

Read documents by listing them, counting them and matching them to a query
Update and delete documents in MongoDB based on specific criteria

About Skills Network Cloud IDE

Skills Network Cloud IDE (based on Theia and Docker) provides an environment for hands on labs for course and project related labs. Theia is an open source IDE
(Integrated Development Environment), that can be run on desktop or on the cloud. To complete this lab, we will be using the Cloud IDE based on Theia and
MongoDB running in a Docker container.

Important Notice about this lab environment

Please be aware that sessions for this lab environment are not persisted. Every time you connect to this lab, a new environment is created for you. Any data you may
have saved in the earlier session would get lost. Plan to complete these labs in a single session, to avoid losing your data.

Set-up: Start MongoDB

Navigate to Skills Network Toolbox.

You will notice MongoDB listed there, but inactive. Which means the database is not available to use.

Once you click on it, you will see more details about it and a button to start it.

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Clicking on the start button will run a background process to configure and start your MongoDB server.

Shortly after that, your server is ready for use. This deployment has access control enabled and MongoDB enforces authentication. So, take note of the password as
you will need it to login as root user.

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You can now open terminal and enter details yourself.

This will open a new terminal at the bottom of the screen as in the image below.

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Run the below command on the newly opened terminal. (You can copy the code by clicking on the little copy button on the bottom right of the codeblock below and
then paste it, wherever you wish.)
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1. mongosh -u root -p PASSWORD --authenticationDatabase admin local

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The command contains the username and password to connect to mongodb server (the text after the -p option is the password). Your output would be different from
the one shown above. Copy the command given to you, and keep it handy. You will need it in the next step.

Or you can simply click on MongoDB CLI which does that for you.

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Exercise 1 - Getting the database and collection ready

Select the training database
Select the training database.

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Create languages collection

Create a collection named languages.

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Exercise 2 - Create documents

1. Run the below commands in mongo client to insert two documents into the collection languages one at a time.
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1. db.languages.insertOne({"name":"java","type":"object oriented"})
2. db.languages.insertOne({"name":"python","type":"general purpose","versions":201})
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2. To insert more than one document at the same time, you can use insertMany command; which accepts an array as the argument.
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1. db.languages.insertMany([
2. {"name":"scala","type":"functional"},
3. {"name":"c","type":"procedural"},
4. {"name":"c++","type":"object oriented"}
5. ])
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Exercise 3 - Read documents

Let's try out different ways of querying documents.

1. Find how many documents in languages collection.

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1. db.languages.countDocuments()
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2. List the first document in the collection.

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1. db.languages.findOne()
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3. List all documents in the collection.

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1. db.languages.find()
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4. List first 3 documents in the collection.

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1. db.languages.find().limit(3)
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5. Query for "python" language.

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1. db.languages.find({"name":"python"})
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6. Query for "object oriented" languages.

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1. db.languages.find({"type":"object oriented"})
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7. Use projection to only project specific fields. Using a projection document you can specify what fields we wish to see or skip in the output.

This command lists all the documents with only name field in the output.
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1. db.languages.find({},{"name":1})
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8. This command lists all the documents without the name field in the output.
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1. db.languages.find({},{"name":0})
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9. This command lists all the object oriented languages with only name field in the output.
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1. db.languages.find({"type":"object oriented"},{"name":1})
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Exercise 4 - Update documents

You will now update documents based on a criteria.

1. Add a field to all documents

The updateMany command is used to update documents in a mongodb collection, and it has the following generic syntax.
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1. db.collection.updateMany(<filter>,<update>)
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Here we are adding a field description with value programming language to all documents.
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1. db.languages.updateMany({},{$set:{"description":"programming language"}})
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2. Set the creater for python language.

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1. db.languages.updateMany({"name":"python"},{$set:{"creator":"Guido van Rossum"}})
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3. Set a field named compiled with a value true for all the object oriented languages.
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1. db.languages.updateMany({"type":"object oriented"},{$set:{"compiled":true}})
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4. Increment version for python by 1.

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1. db.languages.updateOne({"name":"python"},{$inc:{"version":1}})
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Exercise 5 - Delete documents

Delete documents based on a criteria.

1. Delete one scala language document.

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1. db.languages.deleteOne({"name":"scala"})
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2. Delete all object oriented languages.

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1. db.languages.deleteMany({"type":"object oriented"})
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3. Delete all the documents in a collection.

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1. db.languages.deleteMany({})
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Practice exercises
Run the below code on mongo console. It will insert 5 documents, which will serve as sample data for the next steps.
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1. use training
2. db.languages.insertMany([
3. {"name":"java","type":"object oriented"},
4. {"name":"python","type":"general purpose"},
5. {"name":"scala","type":"functional"},
6. {"name":"c","type":"procedural"},
7. {"name":"c++","type":"object oriented"}
8. ])

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1. Problem:

Insert an entry for Haskell programming language which is of type functional.

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2. Problem:

Query all languages with type as functional.

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3. Problem:

Add Bjarne Stroustrup as creator for c++.

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4. Problem:

Delete all functional programming languages.

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5. Problem:

Disconnect from the mongodb server.

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Summary
In this lab, you have gained the understanding of CRUD operations in MongoDB.

Author(s)
Muhammad Yahya

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