Avoid current URL string parser is deprecated warning by setting useNewUrlParser to true

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I have a database wrapper class that establishes a connection to some MongoDB instance   async connect connectionString  string   Promise lt void gt            this client   await MongoClient connect connectionString          this db   this client db       This gave me a warning       node 4833  DeprecationWarning  current URL string parser is deprecated  and will be removed in a future version  To use the new parser  pass option   useNewUrlParser  true   to MongoClient connect    The connect   method accepts a MongoClientOptions instance as second argument  But it doesn t have a property called useNewUrlParser  I also tried to set those property in the connection string like this  mongodb   127 0 0 1 my-db useNewUrlParser true but it has no effect on those warning    So how can I set useNewUrlParser to remove those warning  This is important to me since the script should run as cron and those warnings result in trash-mail spam    I m using mongodb driver in version 3 1 0-beta4 with corresponding  types mongodb package in 3 0 18  Both of them are the latest avaliable using npm install   Workaround  Using an older version of mongodb driver    mongodb     3 0 8     types mongodb     3 0 18

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You just need to set the following things before connecting to the database as below:

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

mongoose.set('useNewUrlParser', true);
mongoose.set('useFindAndModify', false);
mongoose.set('useCreateIndex', true);
mongoose.set('useUnifiedTopology', true);

mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/testaroo');

Also,

Replace update() with updateOne(), updateMany(), or replaceOne()
Replace remove() with deleteOne() or deleteMany().
Replace count() with countDocuments(), unless you want to count how many documents are in the whole collection (no filter).
In the latter case, use estimatedDocumentCount().

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Updated for ECMAScript nbsp 8   await  The incorrect ECMAScript nbsp 8 demo code MongoDB inc provides also creates this warning   MongoDB provides the following advice  which is incorrect     To use the new parser  pass option   useNewUrlParser  true   to MongoClient connect    Doing this will cause the following error      TypeError  final argument to executeOperation must be a callback   Instead the option must be provided to new MongoClient   See the code below   const DATABASE NAME    mydatabase       URL    mongodb   localhost 27017   DATABASE NAME    module exports   async function         const client   new MongoClient URL   useNewUrlParser  true       var db   null     try              Note this breaks             await client connect  useNewUrlParser  true           await client connect           db   client db DATABASE NAME        catch  err            console log err stack             return db

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These lines did the trick for all other deprecation warnings too   const db   await mongoose createConnection url    useNewUrlParser  true     mongoose set  useCreateIndex   true   mongoose set  useFindAndModify   false

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As noted the 3 1 0-beta4 release of the driver got  released into the wild  a little early by the looks of things  The release is part of work in progress to support newer features in the MongoDB 4 0 upcoming release and make some other API changes   One such change triggering the current warning is the useNewUrlParser option  due to some changes around how passing the connection URI actually works  More on that later   Until things  settle down   it would probably be advisable to  pin  at least to the minor version for 3 0 x releases      dependencies          mongodb     3 0 8        That should stop the 3 1 x branch being installed on  fresh  installations to node modules  If you already did install a  latest  release which is the  beta  version  then you should clean up your packages   and package-lock json   and make sure you bump that down to a 3 0 x series release   As for actually using the  new  connection URI options  the main restriction is to actually include the port on the connection string   const   MongoClient     require  mongodb    const uri    mongodb   localhost 27017       mongodb   localhost - will fail   async function       try        const client   await MongoClient connect uri   useNewUrlParser  true                anything      client close        catch e        console error e              That s a more  strict  rule in the new code  The main point being that the current code is essentially part of the  node-native-driver    npm mongodb   repository code  and the  new code  actually imports from the mongodb-core library which  underpins  the  public  node driver   The point of the  option  being added is to  ease  the transition by adding the option to new code so the newer parser   actually based around url   is being used in code adding the option and clearing the deprecation warning  and therefore verifying that your connection strings passed in actually comply with what the new parser is expecting   In future releases the  legacy  parser would be removed and then the new parser will simply be what is used even without the option  But by that time  it is expected that all existing code had ample opportunity to test their existing connection strings against what the new parser is expecting   So if you want to start using new driver features as they are released  then use the available beta and subsequent releases and ideally make sure you are providing a connection string which is valid for the new parser by enabling the useNewUrlParser option in MongoClient connect     If you don t actually need access to features related to preview of the MongoDB 4 0 release  then pin the version to a 3 0 x series as noted earlier  This will work as documented and  pinning  this ensures that 3 1 x releases are not  updated  over the expected dependency until you actually want to install a stable version

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The complete example for Express js  API calling case and sending JSON content is the following       app get   api myApi    req  res    gt      MongoClient connect  mongodb   user password domain com port dbname         useNewUrlParser  true     err  db    gt           if  err  throw err       const dbo   db db  dbname         dbo collection  myCollection            find        id  0             sort    id  -1             toArray             errFind  result    gt                if  errFind  throw errFind             const resultJson   JSON stringify result              console log  find    resultJson              res send resultJson              db close

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The below highlighted code to the mongoose connection solved the warning for the mongoose driver   mongoose connect  mongodb   localhost 27017 test     useNewUrlParser  true

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The connection string format must be mongodb   user password host port db  For example   MongoClient connect  mongodb   user password 127 0 0 1 27017 yourDB     useNewUrlParser  true

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I was using mlab com as the MongoDB database  I separated the connection string to a different folder named config and inside file keys js I kept the connection string which was    x000D   x000D  module exports     x000D    mongoURI   mongodb   username password ds147267 mlab com 47267 projectname  x000D     x000D   x000D   x000D    And the server code was    x000D   x000D  const express   require  express    x000D  const mongoose   require  mongoose    x000D  const app   express    x000D   x000D     Database configuration x000D  const db   require    config keys   mongoURI  x000D   x000D     Connect to MongoDB x000D   x000D  mongoose x000D     connect  x000D      db  x000D        useNewUrlParser  true      Need this for API support x000D      x000D     then      gt  console log  MongoDB connected    x000D     catch err   gt  console log err    x000D   x000D  app get       req  res    gt  res send  hello       x000D   x000D  const port   process env PORT    5000  x000D   x000D  app listen port       gt  console log  Server running on port   port         Tilde  not inverted comma x000D   x000D   x000D    You need to write   useNewUrlParser  true   after the connection string as I did above    Simply put  you need to do    x000D   x000D  mongoose connect connectionString   useNewUrlParser  true    x000D     Or x000D  MongoClient connect connectionString   useNewUrlParser  true    x000D       x000D   x000D   x000D

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You need to add   useNewUrlParser  true   in the mongoose connect   method   mongoose connect  mongodb   localhost 27017 Notification    useNewUrlParser  true

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Here s how I have it  The hint didn t show on my console until I updated npm a couple of days prior    connect has three parameters  the URI  options  and err   mongoose connect      keys getDbConnectionString          useNewUrlParser  true        err   gt            if  err               throw err          console log  Successfully connected to database

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If username or password has the   character  then use it like this   mongoose      connect           DB url             user    dmin   pass   p ssword   useNewUrlParser  true              then      gt  console log  Connected to MongoDB         catch err   gt  console log  Could not connect to MongoDB   err

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I am using mongoose version 5 x for my project  After requiring the mongoose package  set the value globally as below   const mongoose   require  mongoose        Set the global useNewUrlParser option to turn on useNewUrlParser for every connection by default  mongoose set  useNewUrlParser   true

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There is nothing to change  Pass only in the connect function  useNewUrlParser  true    This will work      MongoClient connect url   useNewUrlParser true useUnifiedTopology  true    function err  db            if err                console log err                     else               console log  connected to     url               db close

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The problem can be solved by giving the port number and using this parser   useNewUrlParser  true   The solution can be   mongoose connect  mongodb   localhost 27017 cat app     useNewUrlParser  true       It solves my problem

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I don t think you need to add   useNewUrlParser  true     It s up to you if you want to use the new URL parser already  Eventually the warning will go away when MongoDB switches to their new URL parser   As specified in Connection String URI Format  you don t need to set the port number   Just adding   useNewUrlParser  true   is enough

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The following works for me  const mongoose   require  mongoose     mongoose connect  mongodb   localhost playground     useNewUrlParser  true useUnifiedTopology  true     then res   gt  console log  Connected to db       The mongoose version is 5 8 10

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This works for me nicely  mongoose set  quot useNewUrlParser quot   true   mongoose set  quot useUnifiedTopology quot   true   mongoose    connect db    Connection string defined in another file    then      gt  console log  quot Mongo Connected    quot       catch      gt  console log err

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Check your mongo version   mongo --version   If you are using version    3 1 0  change your mongo connection file to -   MongoClient connect  mongodb   localhost 27017 YourDB     useNewUrlParser  true      or your mongoose connection file to -   mongoose connect  mongodb   localhost 27017 YourDB     useNewUrlParser  true       Ideally  it s a version 4 feature  but v3 1 0 and above are supporting it too  Check out MongoDB GitHub  for details

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The following work for me for the mongoose version 5 9 16 const mongoose   require  mongoose     mongoose set  useNewUrlParser   true   mongoose set  useFindAndModify   false   mongoose set  useCreateIndex   true   mongoose set  useUnifiedTopology   true    mongoose connect  mongodb   localhost 27017 dbName        then      gt  console log  Connect to MongoDB           catch err   gt  console error  Could not connect to MongoDB     err

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const mongoose   require  mongoose     mongoose    connect connection string        useNewUrlParser  true      useUnifiedTopology  true      useCreateIndex  true      useFindAndModify  false          then  con    gt        console log  quot connected to db quot           try to use this

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We were using  mongoose connect  quot mongodb   localhost mean-course quot   then     res    gt       console log  quot Connected to Database Successfully  quot         catch      gt      console log  quot Connection to database failed  quot           This gives a URL parser error The correct syntax is  mongoose connect  quot mongodb   localhost 27017 mean-course quot      useNewUrlParser  true    then     res    gt       console log  quot Connected to Database Successfully  quot         catch      gt      console log  quot Connection to database failed  quot

[node.js] Avoid "current URL string parser is deprecated" warning by setting useNewUrlParser to true

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