Enforcing schema validation in MongoDB

Question

I\'m looking for ways to validate that data being inserted into MongoDB matches a schema, e.g. has all the required fields and correct data types. I know Mongo itself is sc

Answer 1

Not sure if you're still looking but an object document mapper (ODM) would do the trick.

I have checked out both Morphia or Spring Data - MongoDB and either would take care of your type safety concerns since they would map your documents directly to Java classes.

Answer 2

In the upcoming Mongo 3.2 version they added document validation (slides).

You can specify validation rules for each collection, using validator option using almost all mongo query operators (except $geoNear, $near, $nearSphere, $text, and $where). You can read more about it in one of my answers.