How to initialize data/collections/indexes on startup?

[thardy]

I want to initialize my mongodb-memory-server with the some collections, indexes, and initial data for testing. I'd like to use the same file full of shell commands I use with my Docker deployment if possible. Many of my tests involve unique indexes and testing for proper responses to duplicate inserts, etc.

I saw the answers to this question - #309, but they did not mention how to programmatically execute mongo commands from a file against the newly created MongoMemoryServer.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[hasezoey]

I saw the answers to this question - #309, but they did not mention how to programmatically execute mongo commands from a file against the newly created MongoMemoryServer.

its the same way as you would against a normal manually run binary, the only difference is that you need to get the url / port from instance.getUri() as the port is random (unless set specifically).

please note that MMS only installs the server binary (mongod) not other binaries like mongo or mongoimport / mongoexport (or other binaries that may exist).

instead of mongo you could use the mongo nodejs driver instead.