update tutorial to include more information

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Scott R. Parish 2010-03-09 18:32:36 -06:00
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> con <- connect "127.0.0.1" [SlaveOK]
Getting the Databases
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Databases, Collections and FullCollections
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As many database servers, MongoDB has databases--separate namespaces
under which collections reside. Most of the APIs for this driver
request the *FullCollection* which is simply the *Database* and the
*Collection* concatenated with a period.
For instance 'myweb_prod.users' is the the *FullCollection* name for
the *Collection 'users' in the database 'myweb_prod'.
Databases and collections do not need to be created, just start using
them and MongoDB will automatically create them for you.
In the below examples we'll be using the following *FullCollection*:
> import Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8
> let testcol = (fromString "test.haskell")
You can obtain a list of databases available on a connection:
> dbs <- databaseNames con
> let testdb = head dbs
You can obtain a list of collections available on a database:
Getting the Collections
-----------------------
> collections <- collectionNames con testdb
> let testcol = head collections
> collections <- collectionNames con (fromString "test")
Documents
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BSON representation in Haskell
Data in MongoDB is represented (and stored) using JSON-style
documents. In mongoDB we use the *BsonDoc* type to represent these
documents. At the moment a *BsonDoc* is simply a tuple list of the
type '[(ByteString, BsonValue)]'. Here's a BsonDoc which could represent
a blog post:
> import Data.Time.Clock.POSIX
> now <- getPOSIXTime
> :{
let post = [(fromString "author", BsonString $ fromString "Mike"),
(fromString "text",
BsonString $ fromString "My first blog post!"),
(fromString "tags",
BsonArray [BsonString $ fromString "mongodb",
BsonString $ fromString "python",
BsonString $ fromString "pymongo"]),
(fromString "date", BsonDate now)]
:}
With all the type wrappers and string conversion, it's hard to see
what's actually going on. Fortunately the BSON library provides
conversion functions *toBson* and *fromBson* for converting native
between the wrapped BSON types and many native Haskell types. The
functions *toBsonDoc* and *fromBsonDoc* help convert from tuple lists
with plain *String* keys, or *Data.Map*.
Here's the same BSON data structure using these conversion functions:
> :{
let post = toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike"),
("text", toBson "My first blog post!"),
("tags", toBson ["mongoDB", "Haskell"]),
("date", BsonDate now)]
:}
Inserting a Document
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> insert con testcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike"), ("text", toBson "My first Blog post!"), ("tags", toBson ["mongodb", "python","pymongo"])])
> insert con testcol post
Getting a single document with findOne
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> findOne con curcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike")])
> findOne con testcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike")])
Querying for More Than One Document
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> cursor <- find con curcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike")])
> cursor <- find con testcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike")])
> allDocs cursor
You can combine these into one line:
> docs <- allDocs =<< find con curcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike")])
> docs <- allDocs =<< find con testcol (toBsonDoc [("author", toBson "Mike")])
See nextDoc to modify cursor incrementally one at a time.