Tutorial
========

.. testsetup::

  from pymongo import MongoClient

  client = MongoClient()
  client.drop_database("test-database")

This tutorial is intended as an introduction to working with
**MongoDB** and **PyMongo**.

Prerequisites
-------------
Before we start, make sure that you have the **PyMongo** distribution
:doc:`installed <installation>`. In the Python shell, the following
should run without raising an exception:

.. doctest::

  >>> import pymongo

This tutorial also assumes that a MongoDB instance is running on the
default host and port. Assuming you have `downloaded and installed
<https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/installation/>`_ MongoDB, you
can start it like so:

.. code-block:: bash

  $ mongod

Making a Connection with MongoClient
------------------------------------
The first step when working with **PyMongo** is to create a
:class:`~pymongo.mongo_client.MongoClient` to the running **mongod**
instance. Doing so is easy:

.. doctest::

  >>> from pymongo import MongoClient
  >>> client = MongoClient()

The above code will connect on the default host and port. We can also
specify the host and port explicitly, as follows:

.. doctest::

  >>> client = MongoClient("localhost", 27017)

Or use the MongoDB URI format:

.. doctest::

  >>> client = MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")

Getting a Database
------------------
A single instance of MongoDB can support multiple independent
`databases <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/databases-and-collections>`_. When
working with PyMongo you access databases using attribute style access
on :class:`~pymongo.mongo_client.MongoClient` instances:

.. doctest::

  >>> db = client.test_database

If your database name is such that using attribute style access won't
work (like ``test-database``), you can use dictionary style access
instead:

.. doctest::

  >>> db = client["test-database"]

Getting a Collection
--------------------
A `collection <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/databases-and-collections>`_ is a
group of documents stored in MongoDB, and can be thought of as roughly
the equivalent of a table in a relational database. Getting a
collection in PyMongo works the same as getting a database:

.. doctest::

  >>> collection = db.test_collection

or (using dictionary style access):

.. doctest::

  >>> collection = db["test-collection"]

An important note about collections (and databases) in MongoDB is that
they are created lazily - none of the above commands have actually
performed any operations on the MongoDB server. Collections and
databases are created when the first document is inserted into them.

Documents
---------
Data in MongoDB is represented (and stored) using JSON-style
documents. In PyMongo we use dictionaries to represent documents. As
an example, the following dictionary might be used to represent a blog
post:

.. doctest::

  >>> import datetime
  >>> post = {
  ...     "author": "Mike",
  ...     "text": "My first blog post!",
  ...     "tags": ["mongodb", "python", "pymongo"],
  ...     "date": datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.timezone.utc),
  ... }

Note that documents can contain native Python types (like
:class:`datetime.datetime` instances) which will be automatically
converted to and from the appropriate `BSON
<https://bsonspec.org/>`_ types.

.. todo:: link to table of Python <-> BSON types

Inserting a Document
--------------------
To insert a document into a collection we can use the
:meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.insert_one` method:

.. doctest::

  >>> posts = db.posts
  >>> post_id = posts.insert_one(post).inserted_id
  >>> post_id
  ObjectId('...')

When a document is inserted a special key, ``"_id"``, is automatically
added if the document doesn't already contain an ``"_id"`` key. The value
of ``"_id"`` must be unique across the
collection. :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.insert_one` returns an
instance of :class:`~pymongo.results.InsertOneResult`. For more information
on ``"_id"``, see the `documentation on _id
<https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/method/ObjectId/>`_.

After inserting the first document, the *posts* collection has
actually been created on the server. We can verify this by listing all
of the collections in our database:

.. doctest::

  >>> db.list_collection_names()
  ['posts']

Getting a Single Document With :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find_one`
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The most basic type of query that can be performed in MongoDB is
:meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find_one`. This method returns a
single document matching a query (or ``None`` if there are no
matches). It is useful when you know there is only one matching
document, or are only interested in the first match. Here we use
:meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find_one` to get the first
document from the posts collection:

.. doctest::

  >>> import pprint
  >>> pprint.pprint(posts.find_one())
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['mongodb', 'python', 'pymongo'],
   'text': 'My first blog post!'}

The result is a dictionary matching the one that we inserted previously.

.. note:: The returned document contains an ``"_id"``, which was
   automatically added on insert.

:meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find_one` also supports querying
on specific elements that the resulting document must match. To limit
our results to a document with author "Mike" we do:

.. doctest::

  >>> pprint.pprint(posts.find_one({"author": "Mike"}))
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['mongodb', 'python', 'pymongo'],
   'text': 'My first blog post!'}

If we try with a different author, like "Eliot", we'll get no result:

.. doctest::

  >>> posts.find_one({"author": "Eliot"})
  >>>

.. _querying-by-objectid:

Querying By ObjectId
--------------------
We can also find a post by its ``_id``, which in our example is an ObjectId:

.. doctest::

  >>> post_id
  ObjectId(...)
  >>> pprint.pprint(posts.find_one({"_id": post_id}))
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['mongodb', 'python', 'pymongo'],
   'text': 'My first blog post!'}

Note that an ObjectId is not the same as its string representation:

.. doctest::

  >>> post_id_as_str = str(post_id)
  >>> posts.find_one({"_id": post_id_as_str})  # No result
  >>>

A common task in web applications is to get an ObjectId from the
request URL and find the matching document. It's necessary in this
case to **convert the ObjectId from a string** before passing it to
``find_one``::

  from bson.objectid import ObjectId

  # The web framework gets post_id from the URL and passes it as a string
  def get(post_id):
      # Convert from string to ObjectId:
      document = client.db.collection.find_one({'_id': ObjectId(post_id)})

.. seealso:: :ref:`web-application-querying-by-objectid`

Bulk Inserts
------------
In order to make querying a little more interesting, let's insert a
few more documents. In addition to inserting a single document, we can
also perform *bulk insert* operations, by passing a list as the
first argument to :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.insert_many`.
This will insert each document in the list, sending only a single
command to the server:

.. doctest::

  >>> new_posts = [
  ...     {
  ...         "author": "Mike",
  ...         "text": "Another post!",
  ...         "tags": ["bulk", "insert"],
  ...         "date": datetime.datetime(2009, 11, 12, 11, 14),
  ...     },
  ...     {
  ...         "author": "Eliot",
  ...         "title": "MongoDB is fun",
  ...         "text": "and pretty easy too!",
  ...         "date": datetime.datetime(2009, 11, 10, 10, 45),
  ...     },
  ... ]
  >>> result = posts.insert_many(new_posts)
  >>> result.inserted_ids
  [ObjectId('...'), ObjectId('...')]

There are a couple of interesting things to note about this example:

  - The result from :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.insert_many` now
    returns two :class:`~bson.objectid.ObjectId` instances, one for
    each inserted document.
  - ``new_posts[1]`` has a different "shape" than the other posts -
    there is no ``"tags"`` field and we've added a new field,
    ``"title"``. This is what we mean when we say that MongoDB is
    *schema-free*.

Querying for More Than One Document
-----------------------------------
To get more than a single document as the result of a query we use the
:meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find`
method. :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find` returns a
:class:`~pymongo.cursor.Cursor` instance, which allows us to iterate
over all matching documents. For example, we can iterate over every
document in the ``posts`` collection:

.. doctest::

  >>> for post in posts.find():
  ...     pprint.pprint(post)
  ...
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['mongodb', 'python', 'pymongo'],
   'text': 'My first blog post!'}
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['bulk', 'insert'],
   'text': 'Another post!'}
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Eliot',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'text': 'and pretty easy too!',
   'title': 'MongoDB is fun'}

Just like we did with :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find_one`,
we can pass a document to :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.find`
to limit the returned results. Here, we get only those documents whose
author is "Mike":

.. doctest::

  >>> for post in posts.find({"author": "Mike"}):
  ...     pprint.pprint(post)
  ...
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['mongodb', 'python', 'pymongo'],
   'text': 'My first blog post!'}
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['bulk', 'insert'],
   'text': 'Another post!'}

Counting
--------
If we just want to know how many documents match a query we can
perform a :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.count_documents` operation
instead of a full query. We can get a count of all of the documents
in a collection:

.. doctest::

  >>> posts.count_documents({})
  3

or just of those documents that match a specific query:

.. doctest::

  >>> posts.count_documents({"author": "Mike"})
  2

Range Queries
-------------
MongoDB supports many different types of `advanced queries
<https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/operator/>`_. As an
example, lets perform a query where we limit results to posts older
than a certain date, but also sort the results by author:

.. doctest::

  >>> d = datetime.datetime(2009, 11, 12, 12)
  >>> for post in posts.find({"date": {"$lt": d}}).sort("author"):
  ...     pprint.pprint(post)
  ...
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Eliot',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'text': 'and pretty easy too!',
   'title': 'MongoDB is fun'}
  {'_id': ObjectId('...'),
   'author': 'Mike',
   'date': datetime.datetime(...),
   'tags': ['bulk', 'insert'],
   'text': 'Another post!'}

Here we use the special ``"$lt"`` operator to do a range query, and
also call :meth:`~pymongo.cursor.Cursor.sort` to sort the results
by author.

Indexing
--------

Adding indexes can help accelerate certain queries and can also add additional
functionality to querying and storing documents. In this example, we'll
demonstrate how to create a `unique index
<http://mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/index-unique/>`_ on a key that rejects
documents whose value for that key already exists in the index.

First, we'll need to create the index:

.. doctest::

   >>> result = db.profiles.create_index([("user_id", pymongo.ASCENDING)], unique=True)
   >>> sorted(list(db.profiles.index_information()))
   ['_id_', 'user_id_1']

Notice that we have two indexes now: one is the index on ``_id`` that MongoDB
creates automatically, and the other is the index on ``user_id`` we just
created.

Now let's set up some user profiles:

.. doctest::

   >>> user_profiles = [{"user_id": 211, "name": "Luke"}, {"user_id": 212, "name": "Ziltoid"}]
   >>> result = db.profiles.insert_many(user_profiles)

The index prevents us from inserting a document whose ``user_id`` is already in
the collection:

.. doctest::
   :options: +IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL

   >>> new_profile = {"user_id": 213, "name": "Drew"}
   >>> duplicate_profile = {"user_id": 212, "name": "Tommy"}
   >>> result = db.profiles.insert_one(new_profile)  # This is fine.
   >>> result = db.profiles.insert_one(duplicate_profile)
   Traceback (most recent call last):
   DuplicateKeyError: E11000 duplicate key error index: test_database.profiles.$user_id_1 dup key: { : 212 }

.. seealso:: The MongoDB documentation on `indexes <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/indexes/>`_
