A simple wrapper to make a drop in replacement for mongodb out of tinydb. This module is an attempt to add an interface familiar to those currently using pymongo.
Unit testing is currently being worked on and functionality is being added to the library. Current coverage is 93%. Current builds tested on Python versions 2.7 and 3.3+.
The latest stable release can be installed via pip install tinymongo.
The library is currently under rapid development and a more recent version may be desired.
In this case, simply clone this repository, navigate
to the root project directory, and pip install -e .
or use pip install -e git+https://github.com/schapman1974/tinymongo.git#egg=tinymongo
This is a pure python distribution and - thus - should require no external compilers or tools besides those contained within Python itself.
The quick start is shown below. For a more detailed look at tinymongo, take a look at demo.py within the repository.
from tinymongo import TinyMongoClient
# you can include a folder name or absolute path
# as a parameter if not it will default to "tinydb"
connection = TinyMongoClient()
# either creates a new database file or accesses an existing one named `my_tiny_database`
db = connection.my_tiny_database
# either creates a new collection or accesses an existing one named `users`
collection = db.users
# insert data adds a new record returns _id
record_id = collection.insert_one({"username": "admin", "password": "admin", "module":"somemodule"}).inserted_id
user_info = collection.find_one({"_id": record_id}) # returns the record inserted
# you can also use it directly
db.users.insert_one({"username": "admin"})
# returns a list of all users of 'module'
users = db.users.find({'module': 'module'})
#update data returns True if successful and False if unsuccessful
upd = db.users.update_one({"username": "admin"}, {"$set": {"module":"someothermodule"}})
# Sorting users by its username DESC
# omitting `filter` returns all records
db.users.find(sort=[('username', -1)])
# Pagination of the results
# Getting the first 20 records
db.users.find(sort=[('username', -1)], skip=0, limit=20)
# Getting next 20 records
db.users.find(sort=[('username', -1)], skip=20, limit=20)
# Getting the total of records
db.users.count()HINT: Learn more about TinyDB storages and Serializers in documentation
You have to subclass TinyMongoClient and provide custom storages like
CachingMiddleware or other available TinyDB Extension.
from tinymongo import TinyMongoClient
from tinydb.storages import JSONStorage
from tinydb.middlewares import CachingMiddleware
class CachedClient(TinyMongoClient):
"""This client has cache"""
@property
def _storage(self):
return CachingMiddleware(JSONStorage)
connection = CachedClient('/path/to/folder')HINT: You can nest middlewares:
FirstMiddleware(SecondMiddleware(JSONStorage))
To convert your data to a format that is writable to disk TinyDB uses the Python JSON module by default. It's great when only simple data types are involved but it cannot handle more complex data types like custom classes.
To support serialization of complex types you can write
your own serializers using the tinydb-serialization extension.
First you need to install it pip install tinydb-serialization
You can create a serializer for the python datetime using
the following snippet:
from datetime import datetime
from tinydb_serialization import Serializer
class DatetimeSerializer(Serializer):
OBJ_CLASS = datetime
def __init__(self, format='%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S', *args, **kwargs):
super(DatetimeSerializer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self._format = format
def encode(self, obj):
return obj.strftime(self._format)
def decode(self, s):
return datetime.strptime(s, self._format)NOTE: this serializer is available in
tinymongo.serializers.DateTimeSerializer
Now you have to subclass TinyMongoClient and provide customs storage.
from tinymongo import TinyMongoClient
from tinymongo.serializers import DateTimeSerializer
from tinydb_serialization import SerializationMiddleware
class CustomClient(TinyMongoClient):
@property
def _storage(self):
serialization = SerializationMiddleware()
serialization.register_serializer(DateTimeSerializer(), 'TinyDate')
# register other custom serializers
return serialization
connection = CustomClient('/path/to/folder')This extension can work with Flask-Admin which gives a web based administrative panel to your TinyDB. Flask-Admin has features like filtering, search, web forms to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) of the TinyDB records.
You can find the example of Flask-Admin with TinyMongo in Flask-Admin Examples Repository
NOTE: To use Flask-Admin you need to register a DateTimeSerialization as showed in the previous topic.
Contributions are welcome! Currently, the most valuable contributions would be:
- adding test cases
- adding functionality consistent with pymongo
- documentation
- identifying bugs and issues
I will also be adding support for gridFS by storing the files somehow and indexing them in a db like mongo currently does
More to come......
MIT License