Golang MongoDB Connection RetryWrites
I tried using the new-ish MongoDB Golang Controller/Driver.
An issue I had with using it was that the MongoDB Deployment I was using didn’t support retryable writes and the error message stated that it wanted me to add retryWrites=false to my connection string. The thing is the tutorial/blog post I was following here didn’t mention anything regarding that.
The error message was as follows:
$ 2019/09/08 23:21:04 this MongoDB deployment does not support retryable writes. Please add retryWrites=false to your connection string
What I ended up doing to make the issue go away was as follows:
url := os.Getenv("name_of_mongo_db_env_var")
clientOptions := options.Client().ApplyURI(url).SetRetryWrites(false)
client, err := mongo.Connect(context.TODO(), clientOptions)
The key are is the .SetRetryWrites(false) at the end of line 2. The source of which was found here on the godoc website.
This only got a blog post because I made this error twice…