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Learn MongoDB 4.x

You're reading from   Learn MongoDB 4.x A guide to understanding MongoDB development and administration for NoSQL developers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789619386
Length 610 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Essentials
2. Introducing MongoDB 4.x FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up MongoDB 4.x 4. Essential MongoDB Administration Techniques 5. Section 2: Building a Database-Driven Web Application
6. Fundamentals of Database Design 7. Mission-Critical MongoDB Database Tasks 8. Using AJAX and REST to Build a Database-Driven Website 9. Section 3: Digging Deeper
10. Advanced MongoDB Database Design 11. Using Documents with Embedded Lists and Objects 12. Handling Complex Queries in MongoDB 13. Section 4: Replication, Sharding, and Security in a Financial Environment
14. Working with Complex Documents Across Collections 15. Administering MongoDB Security 16. Developing in a Secured Environment 17. Deploying a Replica Set 18. Replica Set Runtime Management and Development 19. Deploying a Sharded Cluster 20. Sharded Cluster Management and Development 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Capturing and processing purchase information from a web form

In order to provide the customer with information on their last purchase, in the domain service class for purchases, we need to add the following method. The technique for finding the last purchase involves including a sort parameter in the pymongo.collection.Collection.find_one() method, which tells the driver to sort by dateOfPurchase in descending order:

    def fetchLastPurchaseForCust(self, custKey) :
query = dict({"customerKey" : custKey})
projection = None
return self.db.purchases.find_one(query, projection, 0, 0, \
False, CursorType.NON_TAILABLE, [('dateOfPurchase', -1)])

Returning to the HTML responder class, we add another custom method that pulls information out of the Purchase object that's presented as an argument. Note that productsPurchased is itself a dictionary of ProductPurchase objects. Accordingly, a for loop is needed for extraction:

    def buildLastPurchase...
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