Mongo Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Version 0.3.1-SNAPSHOT

If you want to test the latest features, you can download the latest snapshot.

To install it, Settings -> Plugins -> Install from disk and restart your IDE.

Last features

• You can specify databases (separated by comma , character) in the configuration. It prevents the plugin to discover the server databases and allows to connect directly to the databases you set (issues #31 and #35).
• $unwind, $limit and $skip operations for aggregation have been fixed (issue #32)

Important Note for the 0.3.0 version

This release supports more than one mongo server, so you will need to reconfigure it after installing it.

ChangeLog

See CHANGELOG.txt

Description

This plugin integrates MongoDB Servers with database/collections tree, Query Runner and Shell console.

Plugin Compatibility

This plugin was built with JDK 1.6 and ideaIU-11.1.4 version.

How to install it?

Download this plugin from your IDE (Mongo Plugin)

Configuration steps

When you open the Mongo explorer, you will see an empty tree :

• To manager your Mongo servers, click on the Mongo Settings button located on the upper toolbar of the Mongo explorer Right Panel

• You can edit your mongo shell path with a test button
• To add a server, click on the [+] button and a dialog will appear
• Set a label for your server, this will be more convenient to distinguish each of them in the Mongo explorer
• If the server requires authentication, you can put your credentials
• You can let the plugin connect to the server on the IDE startup by clicking on the corresponding checkbox
• If you want to hide some collections, you can put them in the Collections to ignore field.
• You can click on the Test Connection button to check your server configuration

Usage

Mongo Explorer

The tree displays for each server all databases with its collections. Just double-click on a collection and the results will be displayed in the Mongo Runner panel. If you double-click on another collection, a new tab will appears side of the previous.

Mongo Runner

The panel is divided into 2 parts.

• Right part displays the results of the query in a tree (max. 300 records).

You can copy the result and paste in a text editor.

If you use the Darcula Theme then the results are displayed as follow:

• Left part allows to specify a query (in json format).

When you type CTRL+SPACE key shortcut a popup is displayed in which you can select query operator.

Either you click on the run query button or else type CTRL+ENTER shortcut to run the query If your server version is at least 2.2, you can use the aggregation framework. You can add a pipeline operation by clicking on the [+] button. You can also copy/paste the query you wrote.

If you have an error during query execution, a feedback panel is displayed below:

• In case of bad JSON syntax

• In case of general error

Note: If you use Ultimate Edition, JSON syntax highlighting is enabled.

Mongo shell integration

If you set the mongo client path (e.g. /usr/bin/mongo), you can run the console by clicking the menu item Tools -> Mongo Shell.

Thanks

I would like to thank:

• MongoDB team
• Mongo Java Driver team
• Jetbrains Team for the great sources of the Groovy Plugin that help me to improve this stuff
• Mark James author of the famfamfam web site who provides beautiful icons.
• Jean Baptiste Potonnier for the suggestion to create this plugin
• Neko team, my first beta testers ;)
• All users of this plugin who sent me valuable suggestions.
• My wife and my daughter who support me to have fun in software development and also remind me my husband/father duty ;).