MongoEngine: database names cannot contain the character '.'

I am trying to insert document using mongoengine in my python script but it raises this exception

(<class 'pymongo.errors.InvalidName'>, InvalidName("database names cannot contain the character '.'",), <traceback object at 0x000000000844F708>) 

Connection string is mongodb://user::42487/db-name

Any suggestions on how to fix this??

Thanks

3 Answers

Rather than using

connect("mongodb://user::42461/db-name")

use this

connect( db='db-name', username='user', password='pass', host='mongodb://user::42461/db-name')

It worked for me. :)

Your database name shouldn't contain any of these characters: ' ', '.', '$', '/', '\\', '\x00', '"'

Check your database name. The Mongo driver also enforces this rule so the chance that you have a database with a dot in its name is slim.

I use python driver 3.4v which is shared cluster format connection string, I try diferent connection string but it doesn't work for me, here's the Connection Strings URI Format for mongoengine