MongoDB and Gideros

totebo

Has anyone used MongoDB with Gideros? If so, which Lua library did you use?

hgy29

You mean accessing a MongoDB instance remotely through sockets from gideros ? This never came to my mind although I use MongoDB regularly...

totebo

Precisely! Is it possible?!

ar2rsawseen

I actually saw couple of solutions, but have not tried any of them

This seems promising:
https://github.com/cloudwu/lua-mongo

jdbc

The best way is to use UrlLoader Gideros class with a Rest API + MongoDB. It is quite easy to build it in Openshift.

https://github.com/openshift-quickstart/openshift-mongo-node-express-example
https://blog.openshift.com/getting-started-with-mongodb-on-nodejs-on-openshift/

Anyway if you only need store some data, use Parse: https://www.parse.com/ I have provided the Lua code to create and update data in Parse in other threads in the forum.

totebo

I'm looking to store and share level editor data. Could Parse do that, and is it suitable?

jdbc

I'm looking to store and share level editor data. Could Parse do that, and is it suitable?

If your level editor data are JSON then it should work with Parse REST API and Gideros UrlLoader class:
https://parse.com/docs/rest/guide#quick-reference

For example create a JSON object with the following code:

require "json"   local headers = { ["X-Parse-Application-Id"] = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX", ["X-Parse-REST-API-Key"] = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX", ["Content-Type"] = "application/json" }   -- Create a new object on Parse (<a href="https://www.parse.com/docs/rest#objects-classes" rel="nofollow">https://www.parse.com/docs/rest#objects-classes</a>) function ParseAPI.createObject(className, object)   print("ParseAPI.createObject", className)   if (className and object) then local url = "<a href="https://api.parse.com/1/classes/"..className" rel="nofollow">https://api.parse.com/1/classes/"..className</a> local method = UrlLoader.POST   -- Session token added to headers --addSessionToken()   local body = json.encode(object) --print("body", body)   local loader = UrlLoader.new(url, method, headers, body)   local function onComplete(event) print("createObject() onComplete", event.data)   local response = json.decode(event.data) local objectId = response.objectId dataSaver.saveValue(className, objectId)   if (level_manager) then level_manager:syncronize(response) end end   local function onError() print("onError") end   local function onProgress(event) --print("onProgress: ") end   loader:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete) loader:addEventListener(Event.ERROR, onError) --loader:addEventListener(Event.PROGRESS, onProgress) else print("Error: class name or object is nil") end end

totebo

@jdbc thanks! Looks great, thanks for the heads up and the code.