Nodejs not able to connect to mongodb on cloud shell

Question

My MongoDB server is hosted on google-cloud VM. I wish to create App Engine microservice. to test connectivity,

my server.js looks like

const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
const test = require('assert');
// Connection url
const url = 'mongodb://testmongodb:27017';
// Database Name
const dbName = 'test';
// Connect using MongoClient
MongoClient.connect(url, { useNewUrlParser: true },function(err, client) {
if(err){console.log(err)}
else {console.log("Connected successfully")}
});

it works perfectly if i connect via another vm. But does not work when trying to execute (npm start) the same code via Google Cloud Shell. I get the error

{ MongoNetworkError: failed to connect to server [testmongodb:27017] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND testmongodb testmongodb:27017]
    at Pool.<anonymous> (/home/google/mng/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/topologies/server.js:562:11)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at Pool.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at Connection.<anonymous> (/home/google/mng/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:316:12)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:317:30)
    at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
    at Connection.emit (events.js:214:7)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/home/google/mng/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js:245:50)
    at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:315:30)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
  name: 'MongoNetworkError',
  message: 'failed to connect to server [testmongodb:27017] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND testmongodb testmongodb:27017]',
  errorLabels: [ 'TransientTransactionError' ],
  [Symbol(mongoErrorContextSymbol)]: {} }

i get exactly the same error when deployed the service [gcloud app deploy]

please help.

Please help me understand, what is "testmongodb" ? Is it the name of the vm in the virtual network ? — Abinash Gupta
yes, its the hostname of VM on which my mongodb resides. Its in the same virtual network — maswadkar
Cool. I guess using localhost instead of the hostnname should work if both servers are in the same VM. — Abinash Gupta

amport amport · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-27T11:28:22

App Engine Standard does support connecting to a MongoDB instance with the very same library that you were using. This example works for Standard and Flexible as well.

The issue is with how you were connecting. You have to create the URI like this:

let uri = `mongodb://${user}:${pass}@${host}:${port}`;

Where as, in your code, you have this:

const url = 'mongodb://testmongodb:27017';

You are missing the user and password in your URI (assuming that testmongodb is your hostname).

Nodejs not able to connect to mongodb on cloud shell

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