How to listen for changes to a MongoDB collection?

Question

I\'m creating a sort of background job queue system with MongoDB as the data store. How can I \"listen\" for inserts to a MongoDB collection before spawning workers to proce

Answer 1

There is an working java example which can be found here.

 MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient();
    DBCollection coll = mongoClient.getDatabase("local").getCollection("oplog.rs");

    DBCursor cur = coll.find().sort(BasicDBObjectBuilder.start("$natural", 1).get())
            .addOption(Bytes.QUERYOPTION_TAILABLE | Bytes.QUERYOPTION_AWAITDATA);

    System.out.println("== open cursor ==");

    Runnable task = () -> {
        System.out.println("\tWaiting for events");
        while (cur.hasNext()) {
            DBObject obj = cur.next();
            System.out.println( obj );

        }
    };
    new Thread(task).start();

The key is QUERY OPTIONS given here.

Also you can change find query, if you don't need to load all the data every time.

BasicDBObject query= new BasicDBObject();
query.put("ts", new BasicDBObject("$gt", new BsonTimestamp(1471952088, 1))); //timestamp is within some range
query.put("op", "i"); //Only insert operation

DBCursor cur = coll.find(query).sort(BasicDBObjectBuilder.start("$natural", 1).get())
.addOption(Bytes.QUERYOPTION_TAILABLE | Bytes.QUERYOPTION_AWAITDATA);