Unit testing with MongoDB

Question

My database of choice is MongoDB. I\'m writing a data-layer API to abstract implementation details from client applications - that is, I\'m essentially providing a single pu

Answer 1

Today I think the best practice is to use testcontainers library (Java) or testcontainers-python port on Python. It allows to use Docker images with unit tests. To run container in Java code just instantiate GenericContainer object (example):

GenericContainer mongo = new GenericContainer("mongo:latest")
    .withExposedPorts(27017);

MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient(mongo.getContainerIpAddress(), mongo.getMappedPort(27017));
MongoDatabase database = mongoClient.getDatabase("test");
MongoCollection collection = database.getCollection("testCollection");

Document doc = new Document("name", "foo")
        .append("value", 1);
collection.insertOne(doc);

Document doc2 = collection.find(new Document("name", "foo")).first();
assertEquals("A record can be inserted into and retrieved from MongoDB", 1, doc2.get("value"));

or on Python (example):

mongo = GenericContainer('mongo:latest')
mongo.with_bind_ports(27017, 27017)

with mongo_container:
    def connect():
        return MongoClient("mongodb://{}:{}".format(mongo.get_container_host_ip(),
                                                    mongo.get_exposed_port(27017)))

    db = wait_for(connect).primer
    result = db.restaurants.insert_one(
        # JSON as dict object
    )

    cursor = db.restaurants.find({"field": "value"})
    for document in cursor:
        print(document)