Mongrest

Mongrest provides an HTTP interface for your mongodb.

How to use

• npm install -g mrest
• mrest --port=<port-number> --url=<database-url>

Supported RESTful urls

CRUD

• GET /users - Retrieves a list of users
• GET /users/12 - Retrieves a user with #12
• POST /users/add - Creates a new user
• PUT /users/12 - Updates user #12
• DELETE /users/12 - Deletes user #12

Filter

• GET /tickets?state=open - Retrieves tickets with state open

Sort

• GET /users?sort=-priority - Retrieves a list of users in descending order of priority

Limit fields

• /users?fields=-id,username,first_name

Limit results

• GET /users?limit=10 - Retrives only top 10 results

Combined

• GET /users?limit=10&fields=-id,fullname,username&sort=-username

Misc

• GET /stats - stats for the current database
• GET /list - lists collections in the current database
• POST /test/new - create a new collection 'test'
• DELETE /test - delete 'test' collection

Query to mongo

• POST /users/filter name=john&age>21&fields=name,age&sort=name,-age&offset=10&limit=10