How to store yaml file in mongodb?

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by gilbert , in category: PHP Databases , 8 months ago

How to store yaml file in mongodb?

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by darrion.kuhn , 3 months ago

@gilbert 

To store a YAML file in MongoDB, you can first convert the YAML file to a JSON file and then use the insertOne() or insertMany() method of the MongoDB driver to insert the JSON document into a collection.


Here's an example of how you can do this using the pyyaml and pymongo libraries:

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import yaml
import pymongo

# Connect to the MongoDB server
client = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")

# Select the database and collection
db = client["mydatabase"]
collection = db["mycollection"]

# Read the YAML file and convert it to a JSON document
with open("data.yaml", "r") as yaml_file:
    data = yaml.safe_load(yaml_file)

# Insert the JSON document into the collection
collection.insert_one(data)


This will insert the data from the YAML file into a new document in the mycollection collection of the mydatabase database.


You can also use the update_one() or update_many() method to update an existing document in the collection, or the replace_one() method to replace an existing document with a new one.


It's also worth noting that MongoDB supports storing data in a variety of formats, including YAML. You can use the bson.json_util.loads() method to parse a YAML string and insert it directly into a collection as a BSON document, without the need to convert it to JSON first. Here's an example of how you can do this:

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import yaml
import pymongo
from bson.json_util import loads

# Connect to the MongoDB server
client = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")

# Select the database and collection
db = client["mydatabase"]
collection = db["mycollection"]

# Read the YAML file and parse it as a BSON document
with open("data.yaml", "r") as yaml_file:
    data = yaml.safe_load(yaml_file)
    bson_data = loads(data)

# Insert the BSON document into the collection
collection.insert_one(bson_data)


I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.