[dancer-users] Question on MongoDB and Dancer

[Gavin Colborne]

Thanks Richard, that looks really helpful, I will try it later on today and
let you know :)

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On 18 October 2017 at 10:13, Richard Jones <ra.jones at dpw.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> I've been caught by that before. Try [% entries.$id.item('_id') %]. For
> some reason (would interested to learn what), TT doesn't seem to be able to
> cope with leading underscores in data structures. You can prove entries
> contains data using:
> [% USE Dumper(Indent=1) %]
> [% FOREACH id IN entries %]
>   <pre>[% Dumper.dump(id) %]</pre>
> [% END %]
>
> or just [% Dumper.dump(entries) %]
>
> On 18/10/2017 06:28, Gavin Colborne wrote:
>
> Hi Dancers,
>
> I am pretty new to Dancer and really like the light nature of the
> framework.
>
> I am trying to create a route which will show data from a MongoDB
> collection and struggling with the syntax.
>
> I have the following in my app:
>
> sub connect_mongo {
>     my $client = MongoDB->connect('mongodb://a.b.c.d') or die "Error
> connecting to Mongo";
> my $db = $client->get_database( 'lfi-perl' );
> return($db);
> }
>
> get '/mongo' => sub {
>     my $db = connect_mongo();
> my $docs = $db->get_collection( 'Test-Collection' );
> my $all_docs;
>      template 'show_mongo.tt', {
>          'entries' => $all_docs = $docs->find(),
>      };
> };
>
> Then in my view the following:
>
> [% FOREACH id IN entries.keys.nsort %]
>
> [% entries.$id._id %]
>
>
>
> I am not able to see any data in my view but am also not seeing any errors.
>
> Any examples of getting data from Mongo in Dancer would be really helpful.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Gavin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Gavin Colborne
>
> Managing Director,
>
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> Mobile: 0788 400 4339
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