Creating test data
This recipe is about creating test data for some of the recipes in this chapter and also for the later chapters in this book. We will demonstrate how to load a CSV file in a mongo database using the mongo import utility. This is a basic recipe, and if the reader is aware of the data import utility; they can just download the CSV file from the Packt website (pincodes.csv), load it in the collection by themselves, and skip the rest of the recipe. We will use the default database, test, and the collection will be named postalCodes.
Getting ready
The data used here is for postcodes in India. Download the pincodes.csv file from the Packt website. The file is a CSV file with 39,732 records; it should create 39,732 documents on successful import. We need to have the Mongo server up and running. Refer to the Installing single node MongoDB recipe from Chapter 1, Installing and Starting the Server for instructions on how to start the server. The server should begin listening for...
