Flask mongoengine connect through uri

flask, heroku, mongodb, mongoengine

Solution

So I got it working (finally):

from flask import Flask
from mongoengine import connect

app = Flask(__name__)

app.config["MONGODB_DB"] = 'app12345678'
connect(
    'app12345678',
    username='heroku',
    password='a614e68b445d0d9d1c375740781073b4',
    host='mongodb://<user>:<password>@alex.mongohq.com:10043/app12345678',
    port=10043
)

Though I anticipate that various other configurations will work.

Problem

I have a small flask application which I am deploying to Heroku. My local configuration looks like this: ``` from flask import Flask from flask.ext.mongoengine import MongoEngine app = Flask(__name__) app.debug = True app.config["MONGODB_SETTINGS"] = {'DB': "my_app"} app.config["SECRET_KEY"] = "secretpassword" db = MongoEngine(app) ``` So, I know that I need to configure the app to use the Mongo `URI` method of connection, and I have my connection info: ``` mongodb://<user>:<password>@alex.mongohq.com:10043/app12345678 ``` I am just a little stuck as to the syntax for modifying my app to connect through the `URI`.

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