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HANDLING CURSOR FAILURES

The MongoDB C driver will automatically destroy a server-side cursor when mongoc_cursor_destroy() is called. Failure to call this function when done with a cursor will leak memory client side as well as consume extra memory server side. If the cursor was configured to never timeout, it will become a memory leak on the server.

Tailable cursors are cursors that remain open even after they've returned a final result. This way, if more documents are added to a collection (i.e., to the cursor's result set), then you can continue to call mongoc_cursor_next() to retrieve those additional results.

Here's a complete test case that demonstrates the use of tailable cursors.

NOTE:

Tailable cursors are for capped collections only.


An example to tail the oplog from a replica set.

mongoc-tail.c

#include <bson/bson.h>
#include <mongoc/mongoc.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#ifdef _WIN32
#define sleep(_n) Sleep ((_n) *1000)
#endif
static void
print_bson (const bson_t *b)
{
   char *str;
   str = bson_as_canonical_extended_json (b, NULL);
   fprintf (stdout, "%s\n", str);
   bson_free (str);
}
static mongoc_cursor_t *
query_collection (mongoc_collection_t *collection, uint32_t last_time)
{
   mongoc_cursor_t *cursor;
   bson_t query;
   bson_t gt;
   bson_t opts;
   BSON_ASSERT (collection);
   bson_init (&query);
   BSON_APPEND_DOCUMENT_BEGIN (&query, "ts", &gt);
   BSON_APPEND_TIMESTAMP (&gt, "$gt", last_time, 0);
   bson_append_document_end (&query, &gt);
   bson_init (&opts);
   BSON_APPEND_BOOL (&opts, "tailable", true);
   BSON_APPEND_BOOL (&opts, "awaitData", true);
   cursor = mongoc_collection_find_with_opts (collection, &query, &opts, NULL);
   bson_destroy (&query);
   bson_destroy (&opts);
   return cursor;
}
static void
tail_collection (mongoc_collection_t *collection)
{
   mongoc_cursor_t *cursor;
   uint32_t last_time;
   const bson_t *doc;
   bson_error_t error;
   bson_iter_t iter;
   BSON_ASSERT (collection);
   last_time = (uint32_t) time (NULL);
   while (true) {
      cursor = query_collection (collection, last_time);
      while (!mongoc_cursor_error (cursor, &error) &&
             mongoc_cursor_more (cursor)) {
         if (mongoc_cursor_next (cursor, &doc)) {
            if (bson_iter_init_find (&iter, doc, "ts") &&
                BSON_ITER_HOLDS_TIMESTAMP (&iter)) {
               bson_iter_timestamp (&iter, &last_time, NULL);
            }
            print_bson (doc);
         }
      }
      if (mongoc_cursor_error (cursor, &error)) {
         if (error.domain == MONGOC_ERROR_SERVER) {
            fprintf (stderr, "%s\n", error.message);
            exit (1);
         }
      }
      mongoc_cursor_destroy (cursor);
      sleep (1);
   }
}
int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
   mongoc_collection_t *collection;
   mongoc_client_t *client;
   mongoc_uri_t *uri;
   bson_error_t error;
   if (argc != 2) {
      fprintf (stderr, "usage: %s MONGO_URI\n", argv[0]);
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
   }
   mongoc_init ();
   uri = mongoc_uri_new_with_error (argv[1], &error);
   if (!uri) {
      fprintf (stderr,
               "failed to parse URI: %s\n"
               "error message:       %s\n",
               argv[1],
               error.message);
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
   }
   client = mongoc_client_new_from_uri (uri);
   if (!client) {
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
   }
   mongoc_client_set_error_api (client, 2);
   collection = mongoc_client_get_collection (client, "local", "oplog.rs");
   tail_collection (collection);
   mongoc_collection_destroy (collection);
   mongoc_uri_destroy (uri);
   mongoc_client_destroy (client);
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


Let's compile and run this example against a replica set to see updates as they are made.

$ gcc -Wall -o mongoc-tail mongoc-tail.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libmongoc-1.0)
$ ./mongoc-tail mongodb://example.com/?replicaSet=myReplSet
{
    "h" : -8458503739429355503,
    "ns" : "test.test",
    "o" : {
        "_id" : {
            "$oid" : "5372ab0a25164be923d10d50"
        }
    },
    "op" : "i",
    "ts" : {
        "$timestamp" : {
            "i" : 1,
            "t" : 1400023818
        }
    },
    "v" : 2
}


The line of output is a sample from performing db.test.insert({}) from the mongo shell on the replica set.

SEE ALSO:

mongoc_cursor_set_max_await_time_ms().



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