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Mustafa Khalid
Mustafa Khalid

Reputation: 191

MongoEngine: database names cannot contain the character '.'

I am trying to insert document using mongoengine in my python script but it raises this exception

(<class 'pymongo.errors.InvalidName'>, InvalidName("database names cannot contain the character '.'",), <traceback object at 0x000000000844F708>)

Connection string is mongodb://user:[email protected]:42487/db-name

Any suggestions on how to fix this??

Thanks

Upvotes: 7

Views: 13278

Answers (4)

eden
eden

Reputation: 1

I just solved this problem. In the .env file:

MONGO_URL = mongodb+srv://papi:****@cluster0.zvhnr7t.mongodb.net/social media app?retryWrites=true&w=majority

I fixed it by removing the space between social media app like this:

MONGO_URL=mongodb+srv://papi:*****@cluster0.zvhnr7t.mongodb.net/socialmediaapp?retryWrites=true&w=majority

so remove the space and check also there is no space between the username and password.

Upvotes: 0

Mustafa Khalid
Mustafa Khalid

Reputation: 191

Rather than using

connect("mongodb://user:pass@server_url:port/db-name")

use this

connect( db='db-name', username='user', password='pass', host='mongodb://user:pass@server_url:port/db-name')

It worked for me. :)

Upvotes: 11

Marvin
Marvin

Reputation: 754

I use python driver 3.4v which is shared cluster format connection string, I try diferent connection string but it doesn't work for me, here's the Connection Strings URI Format for mongoengine

Upvotes: 0

Oluwafemi Sule
Oluwafemi Sule

Reputation: 38952

Your database name shouldn't contain any of these characters: ' ', '.', '$', '/', '\\', '\x00', '"'

Check your database name. The Mongo driver also enforces this rule so the chance that you have a database with a dot in its name is slim.

Upvotes: 3

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