MongoDB Output

Description

The MongoDB Output transform can output data to a MongoDB database collection.

For additional information about MongoDB, see the MongoDB documentation.

Options

General

Transform name : Specify the unique name of the MongoDB Output transform in the pipeline.

Configure Connection tab

mongodb output screenshot connection tab

The Configure connection tab enables you to specify the database and collection for your output.

Enter the following information in the transform fields:

Field Description

Host name(s) or IP address(s)

Specify the network name or address of the MongoDB instance(s). You can also specify a different port number for each host name by separating the host name and port number with a colon. You can input multiple host names or IP addresses, separated by a comma.

Port

Specify the port number of the MongoDB instance or instances. Use this to specify a default port if no ports are given as part of the host name(s) or IP address(es) field. The default value is 27017.

Enable SSL connection

Specify to connect to a MongoDB Server that is configured with SSL.

Use all replica set members/mongos

Select to use all replica sets when multiple hosts are specified in the Host name(s) or IP address(s) field.

If a replica set contains more than one host, the Java driver discovers all hosts automatically. The driver connects to the next replica set in the list if the set you try to connect to is down.

Authentication database

Specify the authentication database.

Username

Specify the username required to access the database. If you want to use Kerberos authentication, enter the Kerberos principal in this field.

Password

Specify the password associated with the username. If you are using Kerberos authentication, you do not need to enter the password.

Authenticate Mechanism

Select the method used to verify the identity of users. The values are SCRAM-SHA-1 and MONGODB-CR.

Authenticate using Kerberos

Select to specify authentication using Kerberos.

Connection timeout

Specify (in milliseconds) how long to wait for a connection to a database before terminating the connection attempt. Leave blank to never terminate the connection.

Socket timeout

Specify (in milliseconds) how long to wait for a write operation before terminating the operation. Leave blank to never terminate the operation.

Output options tab

mongodb output screenshot output tab

The Output options tab provides additional controls for inserting data into a MongoDB collection. If the specified collection does not exist, it is created before a document is inserted.

Enter the following information in the fields on this tab:

Option Description

Database

Specify the target database for the output. When a valid hostname and port has been set, you can click Get DBs to retrieve the names of existing databases within a selected database.

Collection

Specify the target collection for the output. When a valid hostname and port has been set, you can click Get Collections to retrieve the names of existing collections within a selected database. If the specified collection does not exist, it will be created before data is inserted.

Batch insert size

Specify the batch size for bulk insert operations. The default value is 100 rows.

Truncate collection

Select to delete existing data in the target collection before inserting new data.

Update

Sets the update write method for the specified database and collection.

The Upsert and Modifier update options are not available unless the Update field is selected.

Upsert

Select to change the write method from insert to upsert. The upsert method replaces a matched record with an entire new record based on all the incoming fields specified in the Mongo document fields tab. A new record is created if match conditions fail for an update.

Multi-update

Select to update all matching documents for each update or upsert operation.

Modifier update

Select to enable modifiers ($ operators) to be used to modify individual fields within matching documents. All matching documents are updated when the Multi-update option is selected.

To update more than one matching document, select Modifier update and Upsert. Selecting Modifier update, Upsert, and Multi-update applies updates to all matching documents, instead of just the first.

Write concern (w option)

Specify the minimum number of servers that must succeed for a write operation. The values are:

-1 : Disables all acknowledgement of write operation errors

0 (Zero) : Disables basic acknowledgment of write operations, but returns information about socket excepts and networking errors

1 : Acknowledges write operations on the primary node

>1 : Wait for successful write operations to the specified number of slaves, including the primary.

Click Get custom write concerns to retrieve custom write concerns that you have stored in the repository.

w Timeout

Specify time (in milliseconds) to wait for a response to write operations before terminating the operation. Leave blank to never terminate.

Journaled writes

Select to set write operations to wait until the mongod (the primary daemon process for the MongoDB system) acknowledges the write operation and commits the data to the journal.

Read preference

Specify which node to read first:

- Primary

- Primary preferred

- Secondary

- Secondary preferred

- Nearest

The default is Primary. The Read preference is available when Modifier update is selected.

Number of retries for write operations

Specify the number of times that a write operation is attempted.

Delay, in seconds, between retry attempts

Specify the number of seconds to wait before the next retry.

Mongo document fields tab

mongodb output screenshot fields tab

Use the Mongo document fields tab to define how field values coming into the transform are written to a Mongo document. The Modifier policy column controls when the execution of a modifier operation affects a particular field. You can use modifier policies when the data for one Mongo document is split over several incoming Hop rows or when it is not possible to execute different modifier operations that affect the same field simultaneously.

There are 2 helper buttons you can use: * Get fields :Populates the Name column of the table with the names of the incoming fields. * Preview document structure : Opens a dialog showing the structure that will be written to MongoDB in JSON format.

Enter the following information in the fields on this tab:

Column Field Description

Name

Names of the incoming fields.

Mongo document path

The hierarchical path to fields in a document in dot notation format.

Use field name

Whether to use the incoming field name as the final entry in the path. The values are Y (use incoming field names) and N (do not use incoming field names). When set to Y, a preceding period (.) is assumed.

NULL values

Specifies whether to insert null values in the database. The values are:

- Insert NULL

- Ignore

JSON

Indicates the incoming value is a JSON document.

Match field for update

Indicates whether to match a field when performing an upsert operation. The first document in the collection that matches all fields tagged as Y in this column is replaced with the new document constructed with incoming values for all the defined field paths. If a matching document does not exist, then a new document is inserted into the collection.

Modifier operation

Specify in-place modifications of existing document fields.

The modifiers are:

- N/A

- $set : Sets the value of a field.

- $inc : Sets the value of a field if the field does not exist. If the field exists, increases (or decreases, with a negative value) the value of a field.

- $push : Sets the value of a field if the field does not exist. If the field exists, appends the value of a field.

- $ : (the positional operator for matching inside of arrays).

Modifier policy

Controls when execution of a modifier operation affects a field. The values are:

- Insert&Update : The operation is executed whether or not a match exists in the collection (default). The Insert&Update modifier policy (upsert) allows you to specify fields to match when performing an upsert operation. Upsert only replaces the first matching document. Modifier upserts can be used to replace certain field values in multiple documents.

- Insert : The operation is executed on an insert only (when the match conditions fail)

- Update : The operation is executed when match conditions succeed.

Example

Here is an example of how you can define a document structure with an arbitrary hierarchy. Use the following input data and document field definitions to create the example document structure in MongoDB:

Input data
first, last, address, age
Bob, Jones ,"13 Bob Street", 34
Fred, Flintstone, "10 Rock Street",50
Zaphod, Beeblebrox, "Beetlejuice 1", 356
Noddy,Puppet,"Noddy Land",5
Document field definitions
Name Mongo document path Use field name NULL values JSON Match field for update Modifier operation Modifier policy

first

top1

Y

N

N

N/A

Insert&Update

last

array[O]

Y

N

N

N/A

Insert&Update

address

array[O]

Y

N

N

N/A

Insert&Update

age

array[O]

Y

N

N

N/A

Insert&Update
Document structure
{
  "top1" : {
    "first" : "<string val>"
   },
  "array" : [ { "last" : "<string val>" , "address" : "<string val>"}],
  "age" : "<integer val>"
}

Create/drop indexes tab

mongodb output screenshot indexes tab

Use the Create/drop indexes tab to create and drop indexes on one or more fields. Unless unique indexes are being used, MongoDB allows duplicate records to be inserted. Indexing is performed after all rows have been processed by the transform.

You can use the Show indexes button to display a list of existing indexes.

Enter the following information in the fields in this tab:

Field Description

Index fields

Specify a single index (using one field) or a compound index (using multiple fields). Compound indexes are specified by a comma-separated list of paths. Use dot notation to specify the path to a field to use in the index. An optional direction indicator can be specified: 1 for ascending or -1 for descending.

Index opp

Specify whether to create or drop an index.

Unique

Specify whether to index only fields with unique values.

Sparse

Specify whether to index only documents that have the indexed field.

Create/drop indexes example

The following options defines the creation of a compound index of the "first" and "age" fields in ascending order:

Index fields Index opp Unique Sparse

top1.first,age

Create

N

N