diffmongo -- a command-line diff tool for MongoDb databases/collections

diffmongo -- a command-line diff tool for MongoDb databases/collections It's goal to update MongoDb collections without drop/restore procedure them.

Contents

• 1   History
• 2   Requirements
• 3   Main features
  • 3.1   Python version
• 4   Quickstart
• 5   Usage

1   History

This tool was developed for APICrafter project, to keep sane updated of production MongoDb collection. APICrafter is a data platform that provided access to high quality datasets via API.

2   Requirements

This module uses datadifflib - https://github.com/datacoon/datadifflib

3   Main features

• Generates action list of changes of MongoDb collections
• Generates text file of index of MongoDb collections

3.1   Python version

Python version 3.6 or greater is required.

4   Quickstart

Find README.md in 'examples' directory.

To use example, please use data in this directory

Run 'mongorestore', it will create two collections - massfounders and mold

Run command to generate action list .. code-block:: bash

$ diffmongo compare -fd massfounders -fc massfounders -td massfounders -tc mold -i inn -o difftable.csv

it will produce file difftable.csv with list of actions:

• "a" - to add record
• "d" - to delete record
• "c" - to update changed record

Run command to apply actions from actions file

$ diffmongo apply -df difftable.csv -fd massfounders -fc massfounders -td massfounders -tc mold

it will read file difftable.csv and apply each action to the collection mold

5   Usage

Synopsis:

$ diffmongo [flags] [command] <parameter1> <parameter2> ... <parameterX>

Commands:

• apply Apply diff table to the MongoDb collection
• compare 比较s to MongoDB collections and generates table of...
• indexcoll Index single collection