Load Sample Data into MongoDB

MongoDB provides a sample data set for testing and development.

This section describes how to load it into your MongoDB instance and configure RESTHeart to use it.

Install the Database tools

You need mongorestore that is part of the MongoDB Database Tool.

To install it please refer to https://docs.mongodb.com/database-tools

Download the sample data

Download the sample data via the curl command:

$ curl https://atlas-education.s3.amazonaws.com/sampledata.archive -o sampledata.archive

Tip	The data set is also available at the following address `https://download.restheart.com/sampledata.archive`. DISCLAIMER: the original data set is provided by MongoDB and available at this address only for educational purposes, MongoDB license terms might apply.

Restore the sample data

Make sure MongoDB is running on localhost:27017 (this command assumes it is not running with authentication required).

$ mongorestore --archive=sampledata.archive

The sample data

The sample data consist of the following databases:

[   "sample_airbnb",
    "sample_analytics",
    "sample_geospatial",
    "sample_mflix",
    "sample_restaurants",
    "sample_supplies",
    "sample_training",
    "sample_weatherdata"
]

Note that the default configuration of RESTHeart does not expose the sample data. It exposes only the database restheart.

You can expose all databases setting the mongo-mounts in the restheart.yml configuration file as follows:

mongo-mounts:
  - what: "*" # default value is /restheart. "*" means expose all databases
    where: /

Note	With this configuration the URI of a collection is `/<db>/<collection>` in contrast with the default configuration where it is just `/<collection>` being it this case the `<db>` set to `restheart`.

For this the mount, the URI /sample_mflix/movies maps to the collection sample_mflix.movies: the request GET /sample_mflix/movies retrieves the movies in the database sample_mflix.

Alternatively you can simply add one or more database mounts as follows:

mongo-mounts:
  - what: "/restheart"
    where: /
  - what: "/sample_mflix"
    where: /mflix

Note	With this configuration the URI of a collection of the database `restheart` is `/<collection>` and the URI of a collection of the database `sample_mflix` is `/mflix/<collection>`.

For the first mount, the URI /users maps to the collection restheart.users: the request GET /users retrieves the users in the database restheart.

For the second mount, the URI /mflix/movies maps to the collection sample_mflix.movies: the request GET /mflix/movies retrieves the movies in the database sample_mflix.