Ming

A Quasi-RESTful Web Service for MongoDB.

Status

Experimental, not well tested.

Installation

• Run sudo npm install ming -g
• Run ming (see Usage)
• Put an SSL-enabled proxy in front of it

Usage

• port: Ming Server port (default 1337)
• connection-string: MongoDB Connection String for the default deployment (default mongodb://localhost/ming)

Example

ming --connection-string mongodb://mymongoserver/mymongodb

Clients

• Ming Fu

API

Routes

Documents

• GET / retrieve collection names
• GET /:collection retrieve collection statistics
• GET /:collection/:document retrieve document
• GET /:collection/:document/:field retrieve field of document
• POST /:collection/query query documents
• POST /:collection create document
• PATCH /:collection/:document update document
• DELETE /:collection/:document delete document

Files (GridFS)

• GET /:prefix.files/:file retrieve metadata of file
• GET /:prefix.files/:file?binary=true retrieve contents of file
• POST /:prefix.files create file
• DELETE /:prefix.files/:file delete file

Headers

• Authorization basic HTTP authorization (e.g. in JavaScript "Authorization : Basic " + btoa(username + ":" + password))