🌿 mongo-nvim 🌿

MongoDB Integration in Neovim.

Browse MongoDB from Neovim! 🔎

🤩 Features

• Browse MongoDB databases with Telescope
• Browse a Mongo database's collections with Telescope
• Browse a collection's documents with Telescope
• Edit a picked document from Neovim

🦒 Requirements

• Nvim >= 0.5
• telescope.nvim
• lua-mongo

Note: instructions to install lua-mongo here.

🏠 Installation

With your plugin manager of choice:

vim-plug:

Plug 'thibthib18/mongo-nvim'

Packer:

use { 'thibthib18/mongo-nvim', rocks = {'lua-mongo'}, config=function()
  require 'mongo-nvim'.setup({})
}

⚙️ Setup

In Lua:

require 'mongo-nvim'.setup {
  -- connection string to your mongodb
  connection_string = "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017",
  -- key to use for previewing/picking documents
  -- either a string or custom table of string or functions
  list_document_key = "_id"
  -- delete selected document in document_picker
  delete_document_mapping = nil -- "<c-d>"
}

In Vim, simply enclose it in a lua block:

lua << EOF
require 'mongo-nvim'.setup {
  -- connection string to your mongodb
  connection_string = "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017",
  -- key to use for previewing/picking documents
  -- either a string or custom table of string or functions
  list_document_key = "_id"
  -- delete selected document in document_picker
  delete_document_mapping = nil -- "<c-d>"
}
EOF

Note: instructions to install lua-mongo here.

⚙️ Config

" List available databases
nnoremap <leader>dbl <cmd>lua require('mongo-nvim.telescope.pickers').database_picker()<cr>
" List collections in database (arg: database name)
nnoremap <leader>dbcl <cmd>lua require('mongo-nvim.telescope.pickers').collection_picker('examples')<cr>
" List documents in a database's collection (arg: database name, collection name)
nnoremap <leader>dbdl <cmd>lua require('mongo-nvim.telescope.pickers').document_picker('examples', 'movies')<cr>

The demo GIF above was made with the database from [MongoDB Getting started page] (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/getting-started/).

list_document_key

list_document_key is used by the collection_picker preview and document_picker to filter documents based on this key. For this movies collection, setting list_document_key to "title" thus lets you select the movie documents by their title. If not set, _id will be used as it is present for every document.

Two types of values are accepted for list_document_key: string or table.

For a simple/homogeneous database or usage, where all documents will share a common field, setting list_document_key to this field's name will do.

To handle a more heterogenous structure, it is preferrable to set list_document_key as a table of the form:

  list_document_key = {
    database1 = {
      collection1 = "someFieldName", -- string to be used as key
      collection2 = function(document) -- function taking a document table, returns a string
        return document.value1
      end
    }
    database2 = {
      ...
    }
  }

If list_document_key[databaseName][collectionName] is a string, the document will be represented by the value at this key.

If list_document_key[databaseName][collectionName] is a function taking a document parameter, the document will be represented by the return value of this function.

In any other case, the _id will be used.

Example: We have a persons database, containing 2 collections: students and employees. For the students, we'd like to see their field name. For employees, we'd like to use both their department and role. To achieve this, use the following list_document_key:

  list_document_key = {
    persons = {
      students = "name",
      employees = function(document)
        return document.department .. " " .. document.role
      end,
  }

Installing lua-mongo

First, make sure you have luarocks installed, or install via your package manager, e.g. for Ubuntu:

sudo apt install luarocks

Install Mongo C driver

Lua-mongo depends on Mongo C driver and LibBSON. The latter is part of Mongo C driver, so we only need to install the former.

From package manager (couldn't get this to work nicely on Ubuntu 18.04, fall back to install from source): official instructions

From source:

git clone https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver.git
cd mongo-c-driver
python build/calc_release_version.py > VERSION_CURRENT
mkdir cmake-build
cd cmake-build
cmake -DENABLE_AUTOMATIC_INIT_AND_CLEANUP=OFF ..
make
sudo make install

Note: On Ubuntu 18.04, libzstd and libssl might be missing, install them with:

sudo apt install libzstd-dev libssl-dev

We're now ready to install lua-mongo:

sudo luarocks install lua-mongo

Roadmap

• [x] Delete document
• [ ] Refresh document (if possible on update)