authendication failed when connecting to mongodb in mlab

Question

I am trying to connect to my mongodb in mlab.com using flask but when I run my flask script I am getting Authentication failed error, please help.

my code:

from flask import Flask, jsonify, request
from flask_pymongo import PyMongo

app = Flask(__name__)

app.config['MONGO_DBNAME'] = 'mydb'
app.config['MONGO_URI'] = 'mongodb://user:pwd@ds157799.mlab.com:57799/mydb'


mongo = PyMongo(app)

@app.route('/framework', methods=['GET'])
def get_all_frameworks():
    framework = mongo.db.framework 

    output = []

    for q in framework.find():
        output.append({'name' : q['name'], 'language' : q['language']})

    return jsonify({'result' : output})

Error:

  File "mongo.py", line 12, in <module>
    mongo = PyMongo(app)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\flask_pymongo\__init__.py", line 97, in __init__
    self.init_app(app, config_prefix)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\flask_pymongo\__init__.py", line 283, in init_app
    mechanism=auth_mechanism)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\database.py", line 1167, in authenticate
    connect=True)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\mongo_client.py", line 588, in _cache_credentials
    sock_info.authenticate(credentials)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\pool.py", line 620, in authenticate
    auth.authenticate(credentials, self)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\auth.py", line 486, in authenticate
    auth_func(credentials, sock_info)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\auth.py", line 237, in _authenticate_scram_sha1
    res = sock_info.command(source, cmd)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\pool.py", line 517, in command
    collation=collation)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\network.py", line 125, in command
    parse_write_concern_error=parse_write_concern_error)
  File "C:\Users\ELCOT\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\pymongo\helpers.py", line 145, in _check_command_response
    raise OperationFailure(msg % errmsg, code, response)
pymongo.errors.OperationFailure: Authentication failed.

Please help to resolve this.

Answer 1

I created a new user with password for my db, and worked fine.