MongoDB Rust Driver

This is the officially supported MongoDB Rust driver, a client side library that can be used to interact with MongoDB deployments in Rust applications. It uses the bson crate for BSON support. The driver contains a fully async API that requires tokio. The driver also has a sync API that may be enabled via feature flags.

For more details, including features, runnable examples, troubleshooting resources, and more, please see the official documentation.

Installation

Requirements

• Rust 1.64+ (See the MSRV policy for more information)
• MongoDB 3.6+

Supported Platforms

The driver tests against Linux, MacOS, and Windows in CI.

Importing

The driver is available on crates.io. To use the driver in your application, simply add it to your project's Cargo.toml.

[dependencies]
mongodb = "2.8.0"

Version 1 of this crate has reached end of life and will no longer be receiving any updates or bug fixes, so all users are recommended to always depend on the latest 2.x release. See the 2.0.0 release notes for migration information if upgrading from a 1.x version.

Enabling the sync API

The driver also provides a blocking sync API. To enable this, add the "sync" feature to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies.mongodb]
version = "2.8.0"
features = ["sync"]

Note: The sync-specific types can be imported from mongodb::sync (e.g. mongodb::sync::Client).

All Feature Flags

Feature	Description
dns-resolver	Enable DNS resolution to allow mongodb+srv URI handling. Enabled by default.
rustls-tls	Use rustls for TLS connection handling. Enabled by default.
openssl-tls	Use openssl for TLS connection handling.
sync	Expose the synchronous API (mongodb::sync).
aws-auth	Enable support for the MONGODB-AWS authentication mechanism.
zlib-compression	Enable support for compressing messages with zlib
zstd-compression	Enable support for compressing messages with zstd.
snappy-compression	Enable support for compressing messages with snappy
in-use-encryption-unstable	Enable support for client-side field level encryption and queryable encryption. This API is unstable and may be subject to breaking changes in minor releases.
tracing-unstable	Enable support for emitting tracing events. This API is unstable and may be subject to breaking changes in minor releases.

Web Framework Examples

Actix

The driver can be used easily with the Actix web framework by storing a Client in Actix application data. A full example application for using MongoDB with Actix can be found here.

Rocket

The Rocket web framework provides built-in support for MongoDB via the Rust driver. The documentation for the rocket_db_pools crate contains instructions for using MongoDB with your Rocket application.

Note on connecting to Atlas deployments

In order to connect to a pre-4.2 Atlas instance that's M2 or bigger, the openssl-tls feature flag must be enabled. The flag is not required for clusters smaller than M2 or running server versions 4.2 or newer.

Windows DNS note

On Windows, there is a known issue in the trust-dns-resolver crate, which the driver uses to perform DNS lookups, that causes severe performance degradation in resolvers that use the system configuration. Since the driver uses the system configuration by default, users are recommended to specify an alternate resolver configuration on Windows (e.g. ResolverConfig::cloudflare()) until that issue is resolved. This only has an effect when connecting to deployments using a mongodb+srv connection string.

Warning about timeouts / cancellation

In async Rust, it is common to implement cancellation and timeouts by dropping a future after a certain period of time instead of polling it to completion. This is how tokio::time::timeout works, for example. However, doing this with futures returned by the driver can leave the driver's internals in an inconsistent state, which may lead to unpredictable or incorrect behavior (see RUST-937 for more details). As such, it is highly recommended to poll all futures returned from the driver to completion. In order to still use timeout mechanisms like tokio::time::timeout with the driver, one option is to spawn tasks and time out on their JoinHandle futures instead of on the driver's futures directly. This will ensure the driver's futures will always be completely polled while also allowing the application to continue in the event of a timeout.

Bug Reporting / Feature Requests

To file a bug report or submit a feature request, please open a ticket on our Jira project:

• Create an account and login at jira.mongodb.org
• Navigate to the RUST project at jira.mongodb.org/browse/RUST
• Click Create Issue - If the ticket you are filing is a bug report, please include as much detail as possible about the issue and how to reproduce it.

Before filing a ticket, please use the search functionality of Jira to see if a similar issue has already been filed.

Contributing

We encourage and would happily accept contributions in the form of GitHub pull requests. Before opening one, be sure to run the tests locally; check out the testing section for information on how to do that. Once you open a pull request, your branch will be run against the same testing matrix that we use for our continuous integration system, so it is usually sufficient to only run the integration tests locally against a standalone. Remember to always run the linter tests before opening a pull request.

Running the tests

Integration and unit tests

In order to run the tests (which are mostly integration tests), you must have access to a MongoDB deployment. You may specify a MongoDB connection string in the MONGODB_URI environment variable, and the tests will use it to connect to the deployment. If MONGODB_URI is unset, the tests will attempt to connect to a local deployment on port 27017.

Note: The integration tests will clear out the databases/collections they need to use, but they do not clean up after themselves.

To actually run the tests, you can use cargo like you would in any other crate:

cargo test --verbose # runs against localhost:27017
export MONGODB_URI="mongodb://localhost:123"
cargo test --verbose # runs against localhost:123

Auth tests

The authentication tests will only be included in the test run if certain requirements are met:

• The deployment must have --auth enabled
• Credentials must be specified in MONGODB_URI
• The credentials specified in MONGODB_URI must be valid and have root privileges on the deployment

export MONGODB_URI="mongodb://user:pass@localhost:27017"
cargo test --verbose # auth tests included

Topology-specific tests

Certain tests will only be run against certain topologies. To ensure that the entire test suite is run, make sure to run the tests separately against standalone, replicated, and sharded deployments.

export MONGODB_URI="mongodb://my-standalone-host:27017" # mongod running on 27017
cargo test --verbose
export MONGODB_URI="mongodb://localhost:27018,localhost:27019,localhost:27020/?replicaSet=repl" # replicaset running on ports 27018, 27019, 27020 with name repl
cargo test --verbose
export MONGODB_URI="mongodb://localhost:27021" # mongos running on 27021
cargo test --verbose

Run the tests with TLS/SSL

To run the tests with TLS/SSL enabled, you must enable it on the deployment and in MONGODB_URI.

export MONGODB_URI="mongodb://localhost:27017/?tls=true&tlsCertificateKeyFile=cert.pem&tlsCAFile=ca.pem"
cargo test --verbose

Note: When you open a pull request, your code will be run against a comprehensive testing matrix, so it is usually not necessary to run the integration tests against all combinations of topology/auth/TLS locally.

Linter Tests

Our linter tests use the nightly version of rustfmt to verify that the source is formatted properly and the stable version of clippy to statically detect any common mistakes. You can use rustup to install them both:

rustup component add clippy --toolchain stable
rustup component add rustfmt --toolchain nightly

Our linter tests also use rustdoc to verify that all necessary documentation is present and properly formatted. rustdoc is included in the standard Rust distribution.

To run the linter tests, run the check-clippy.sh, check-rustfmt.sh, and check-rustdoc.sh scripts in the .evergreen directory. To run all three, use the check-all.sh script.

bash .evergreen/check-all.sh

Continuous Integration

Commits to main are run automatically on evergreen.

Minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) policy

The MSRV for this crate is currently 1.64.0. This will rarely be increased, and if it ever is, it will only happen in a minor or major version release.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).