MongoDB HTTP Interface

I wondered does MongoDB has REST interface (This thought came to be while i was going through CouchDB Futon). Found something interesting with mongoDB also

1. Start your mongod process with command "mongod --rest"

2. Hit http://localhost:28017 in you browser

     ->It should list you some system admin data.

3. Try to hit the url http://localhost:28017/listDatabases?text=1 

     ->It should have given list of databases as a JSON response. For example I had bellow

{ "databases" : [ 
    { "name" : "blog",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "course",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "m101",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "mydb",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "pcat",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "school",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "students",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "test",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 218103808,
      "empty" : false }, 
    { "name" : "local",
      "sizeOnDisk" : 1,
      "empty" : true } ],
  "totalSize" : 1744830464 }

4. You could see list of commands supported over REST at the following location

http://localhost:28017/_commands

5. To  lists all documents under "posts" collection in "blog" database

http://localhost:28017/blog/posts/  

6. To see a specific document in posts collection with query {author="narayan"}

http://localhost:28017/blog/posts/?filter_author=narayan

Following link gives some comprehensive note on this HTTP interface. Read and benefit!!!

http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/tools/http-interfaces/