Restful Booking crashing mongodb-community on osx

[mcarlson-sb]

I'm trying to setup restful booker and run the texttests using the with tests branch.

I have a brand new brew install of mongodb-community

I've built and started restful booker using node 18.18.0

Restful booker starts.
I'm able to navigate to the api docs
When I try to execute a command mongodb service crashes.

Note: I get that this might have nothing to do with restful booking and may purely be a mongodb setup on osx

[mcarlson-sb]

I'm wondering if there is a requirement for specific versions of mongodb and/or node

I noticed that I had to downgrade node to 18.18.0 to get restful booker to start

[mcarlson-sb]

I downgraded mongodb-community to 4.4 and the service stopped crashing when Restful Booker called it.

Currently I have:
OSX Sonoma 14.5
mongodb-community@4.4 installed through Homebrew
node 18.20.4 (lts/hydrogen) installed through nvm
capturemock, dbtext, pymongo installed through pip

At this point I can get the service up and running but 7 out of 10 tests fail with the connection to mongodb failing

I was hoping setting this up on OSX would be relatively straightforward.
Hopefully these notes will help it be easier for the next person

[mcarlson-sb]

This is making more sense now that I'm getting my brain wrapped around it.
package.json in Restful Booker is pulling in a specific version of a mongodb driver. Matching that driver to a compatible version of mongodb is a must.

Playback files are also going to affect this. While mongodb does a good job of being backwards compatible I initially tried jumping (unknowingly) from 4.something (I'm guessing) version playback to 8.0

The oldest version of mongodb that Homebrew supports is 4.4.1
If the playback files need an older version than that it's less than straightforward for OSX users to set up and run the example.

[emilybache]

Thanks for investigating this and sharing what you've learnt! I wouldn't have thought the recorded files in the tests would actually change very much if you upgrade mongodb and the driver. The files in the repo are fairly simple json. The part that might be sensitive to it is in dbtext (https://github.com/texttest/dbtext) which has all the code to get data in and out of mongodb. That code is in Python and uses the 'pymongo' module. I think it's more likely to matter what version of that you use.