Make [collections] optional on connect

[goldfire]

I'm not familiar enough with the native mongodb driver to know if this is possible, but in drivers for other languages I'm not forced to create an array of all of the collections contained in my database.

Instead of this:

db = require('mongojs').connect('db', ['coll1', 'coll2', 'coll3', 'coll4', 'coll5', 'coll6', 'coll7', 'coll8', 'coll9']);

It would be much more convenient to be able to just do the following and have access to all of those collections:

db = require('mongojs').connect('db');

[ghost]

That would be nice, but I love passing an array to select multiple collections at once. So I think the best solution would be to keep the second argument of connect, but just make it optional, and then add a .collection method like several other drivers.

[mafintosh]

The collections array in the constructor should already be optional an there actually already is a method on db called collection so if you want to use it in a more dynamic way you can do:

var db = require('mongojs').connect('db');

db.collection('col1').find(...);

Hope that answers your question.

[ghost]

That's awesome! Do you need someone to update the documentation so people know that it's optional?

[mafintosh]

Yes that would be great!

[mafintosh]

Documentation updated with f118ee8 with an example on how to use collections dynamically