Loopback connector with Cosmos Mongo DB

Question

Hi,

I was running an application which uses loopback-connector-mongodb to connect to Mongo DB, but when using the same connector with Cosmos Mongo DB it doesn't work. I tried in the datasources.json using mongodb protocol which gives connection timeout or can't find the server and mongodb+srv protocol which gives querySrv ENOTFOUND _mongodb._tcp.dbname.mongo.cosmos.azure.com.

Please advise if the loopback connector is supported in cosmos mongo db.

Answer 1

You would need to modify the config in order to make it work with the Mongo API, I have published a sample here.

here https://github.com/sajeetharan/cosmosdb-loopback4-sample.git

const Passwordconfig = {
  name: 'db',
  connector: 'mongodb',
  url:
    'mongodb://cosmosbookstorew4zuqbndb3qfq:' + pass + 'restofconnectionstring',
  host: 'cosmosbookstorew4zuqbndb3qfq.mongo.cosmos.azure.com',
  port: 10255,
  useNewUrlParser: true,
  ssl: true,
};

Answer 2

Hi Sarah,

You would need to modify the configuration file in order to make it work with the Mongo API, i have published a sample https://github.com/sajeetharan/cosmosdb-loopback4-sample.git

const Passwordconfig = {
  name: 'db',
  connector: 'mongodb',
  url:
    'mongodb://cosmosbookstorew4zuqbndb3qfq:' + pass + 'restofconnectionstring',
  host: 'cosmosbookstorew4zuqbndb3qfq.mongo.cosmos.azure.com',
  port: 10255,
  useNewUrlParser: true,
  ssl: true,
};