Check if mongodb database exists?

Question

Is there a possibility to check if a mongo database allready exists?

Answer 1

In my case, I could not use listDatabaseNames, because my user did not have the rights to call this function. Instead, I just assume that it exists and call a method on this database, which will fail if it does not exist or if rights are missing.

Demo C# code:

/// 

/// Tests the connection to the MongoDB server, and if the database already exists.
/// If not or an error is detected, an exception is thrown.
/// 
public static void TestConnection(string mongoUrl, string mongoDatabase) {
   var client = new MongoClient(mongoUrl);
   var database = client.GetDatabase(mongoDatabase);
   try {
      // Try to perform an action on this database; will fail if it does not exist
      database.ListCollections(); 
   }
   catch {
      throw new Exception("Connection established, " +
         "but database does not exist (or missing rights): " + mongoDatabase);
   }    
}