Full text search in Pymongo

Question

The upcoming MongoDB 2.4 supports full-text search.

We do this in the mongo shell with a command, such as

db.players.runCommand(\"text\", {
    \"search\         


        

Answer 1

Figured it out: pymongo uses keyword arguments for the additional command arguments:

db.command("text", "players", 
    search="alice", 
    project={"name": 1, "_id": 0}, 
    limit=10)

The reason for the odd error message "no such cmd: project" is that Python's dictionaries are unordered, and the project key happened to be first when passed to mongo.

Answer 2

An alternative solution is to use OrderedDict. Assuming collection and query are given as variables while additional parameters such as limit, projection and others given in the dict 'params':

params_ord = OrderedDict()
params_ord['text'] = collection
params_ord['search'] = query
for k,v in params.iteritems():
    params_ord[k] = v
db.command(params_ord)