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Using mongoimport to read CSV into nested structure?

I have a mongo document with a structure like: { "foo": { "bar1": "val1", "bar2": "val2"} } I'd like to import my data from a csv using mongoimport --type csv --headerline [...]

I am not sure how to format the field name in the csv to address the nested structure. For instance:

test.csv:

foo.bar1
example

returns { "_id" : ObjectId("4e9d9d25c5d8708e1f51cdbc"), "foo.bar1" : "example" } instead of the desired output:

{ "_id" : ObjectId("4e9d9d25c5d8708e1f51cdbc"), "foo: {"bar1" : "example"} }

The field name seems to be interpreted as a string regardless of its value. Things like foo[bar1] and foo: {bar1} are also used verbatim.

Solution

  • This isn't supported in the current (v2.0) version of mongoimport, but it should be coming soon. You can check out the JIRA ticket here, scheduled for v2.1:

    Until then, if you can translate your CSV data to JSON then you could use mongoimport --type json to import the nested data.

    EDIT: This feature is released now, and available from 2.8.0-rc0