mongo-seeding-cli

Mongo Seeding CLI

The ultimate solution for populating your MongoDB database. Define the data in JSON or JavaScript. Import collections and documents using command line interface!

Installation

To install the app, run the following command:

npm install -g mongo-seeding-cli

Usage

Before you begin, follow the tutorial to define documents and collections to import. See samples directory for examples.

In order to seed your database with data from current directory using default configuration, run the following command:

seed

You can specify custom settings with parameters. The following example imports data from ./example/data directory using MongoDB connection URI mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/mydb.

seed -u 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/mydb' -d ./example/data

Full configuration options are described in Command line parameters section.

Command line parameters

You can use the following parameters while using seed binary:

Name	Default Value	Description
--data $PATH or -d $PATH	current directory	Path to directory containing import data
--db-uri $URI or -u $URI	undefined	If defined, the URI will be used for establishing connection to database, ignoring values defined via other db-* parameters (e.g. db-name, db-host, etc.)
--db-protocol $DB_PROTOCOL	mongodb	MongoDB database protocol
--db-host $DB_HOST	127.0.0.1	MongoDB database host
--db-port $DB_PORT	27017	MongoDB database port
--db-name $DB_NAME	database	Name of the database
--db-username $DB_USERNAME	database	Username for connecting with database that requires authentication
--db-password $DB_PASSWORD	database	Password for connecting with database that requires authentication
--drop-database	false	Dropping database before data import
--replace-id	false	Replacing id property with _id for every document during data import
--reconnect-timeout	10 (seconds)	Maximum time of waiting for successful MongoDB connection
--help or -h	n/a	Help