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Learn MongoDB 4.x

You're reading from   Learn MongoDB 4.x A guide to understanding MongoDB development and administration for NoSQL developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789619386
Length 610 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Doug Bierer Doug Bierer
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Essentials
2. Introducing MongoDB 4.x FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up MongoDB 4.x 4. Essential MongoDB Administration Techniques 5. Section 2: Building a Database-Driven Web Application
6. Fundamentals of Database Design 7. Mission-Critical MongoDB Database Tasks 8. Using AJAX and REST to Build a Database-Driven Website 9. Section 3: Digging Deeper
10. Advanced MongoDB Database Design 11. Using Documents with Embedded Lists and Objects 12. Handling Complex Queries in MongoDB 13. Section 4: Replication, Sharding, and Security in a Financial Environment
14. Working with Complex Documents Across Collections 15. Administering MongoDB Security 16. Developing in a Secured Environment 17. Deploying a Replica Set 18. Replica Set Runtime Management and Development 19. Deploying a Sharded Cluster 20. Sharded Cluster Management and Development 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a display script

The next thing we do is define a standalone Python action script, /path/to/repo/www/chapter_6/details.py, which uses the product domain service and the graphic responder to render the photo and details on a specific product. As with the other scripts, we include a hashtag that instructs the web server's CGI process on how to handle the script. After that is a set of import statements:

#!/usr/bin/python
# tell python where to find source code
import os,sys
src_path = os.path.realpath('../../chapters/06/src')
sys.path.append(src_path)
import cgitb
cgitb.enable(display=1, logdir='../data')
from config.config import Config
from web.responder.html import HtmlResponder
from db.mongodb.connection import Connection
from sweetscomplete.domain.product import ProductService
from sweetscomplete.entity.product import Product

Next, we set up the database connection and product service using the Config class. We also initialize HtmlResponder:

config     ...
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