Using Grails with MongoDB

Question

Newbie having a hard time trying to set up mongodb with grails. I know I can't use the plugin install command because its been deprecated. Instead, I must add this to my BuildConfig.groovy:

plugins {
compile ':mongodb:1.2.0' // or whatever is the latest vesrion
}

and then if don't have security set on mongodb do I still have to do this?

grails {
mongo {
    host = "localhost"
    port = 27017
    username = "blah"
    password = "blah"
    databaseName = "foo"
}
}

and that's it? No driver? Is the plugin the driver?

Answer 1

with default MongoDB settings following should be enough

grails {
mongo {
    host = "localhost"
    port = 27017
    databaseName = "foo"
}
}

Answer 2

Another solution I found is that you don't actually even need to have anything in your DataSource.groovy file. I completely made it blank and I am using the java MongoClient object to directly declare the host and port in the constructor of it. Not sure if its the best solution but it does work for me.