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Creating the MongoDB URL in a Node web app on AppFog
// This is my refactored version of the code available in AppFog’s documentation here:
// https://docs.appfog.com/services/mongodb#node
// The version string is passed to the IIFE as an argument ('mongodb2-2.4.8' in my case)
var mongourl = (function (mongo_version) {
var VCAP = process.env.VCAP_SERVICES;
var obj = VCAP ? JSON.parse(VCAP)[mongo_version][0].credentials : {};
return [
'mongodb://',
(obj.username && obj.password) ? (obj.username + ':' + obj.password + '@') : '',
obj.hostname || 'localhost', ':', obj.port || 27017, '/', obj.db || 'test'
].join('');
}('mongodb2-2.4.8'));
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