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Pymodm connect to an mlab MongoDB

I have a MongoDB database hosted on mlab and I would like to use PyMODM as my object modeling library.

This is my code so far: 

from pymodm import connect, MongoModel, fields


connect = connect('mongodb://user:pass@ds119788.mlab.com/db')

class Test(MongoModel):
    user = fields.CharField()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    test = Test("test")
    test.save()

But it gives me this error :

pymongo.errors.ServerSelectionTimeoutError: ds119788.mlab.com:27017: [Errno 61] Connection refused

Am I missing something?

Solution

  • You need to use the MongoDB URI provided by mlab for your account. The URI should contain the port number to connect to.

    For example, it should look like : 

    connect = connect('mongodb://user:password@ds119788.mlab.com:63123/databaseName')