Mongo Shell - Console/Debug Log

Question

Probably a dumb question. Experimenting with Mongo shell.

I want to do something like:

matt@linuxvm:~/mongodb-linux-i686-1.2.3/bin$ ./mongo
MongoDB shell         


        

Answer 1

I usually use scripts when interacting with the shell, so I wrote a basic Logging object that I "load(script)" into the shell, and then use the Logging object to call logging levels (debug,info,warn,error). The Logger object does use 'print' and 'printjson' at it's core. Also, it contains a basic sprintf, padding, record formatting, etc. If you are going to be doing any signifigant amount of script work with mongodb, I recommend this route. Debugging mongodb scripts feels like being back at intro to programming and debugging with print statements. Configurable logging makes this a little better, but I really miss being able to step through the code.