This package provides an ExplainableCollection class that allows PyMongo's Collection methods to be explained

PyMongoExplain greatly simplifies the amount of effort needed to explain commands. For example, suppose we wanted to explain the following update_one:

collection.update_one({"quantity": 1057, "category": "apparel"},{"$set": {"reorder": True}})

Before PyMongoExplain, one would need to convert the update_one into the equivalent MongoDB command:

collection.database.command(SON([('explain', SON([('update', 'products'), ('updates', [{'q': {'quantity': 1057, 'category': 'apparel'}, 'upsert': False, 'multi': False, 'u': {'$set': {'reorder': True}}}])])), ('verbosity', 'queryPlanner')]))

After PyMongoExplain:

ExplainableCollection(collection).update_one({"quantity": 1057, "category": "apparel"},{"$set": {"reorder": True}})

To install this package simply use pip:

pip install pymongoexplain

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Think you’ve found a bug? Want to see a new feature in PyMongoExplain? Please open an issue on this GitHub repository.

Please include all of the following information when opening an issue:

• Detailed steps to reproduce the problem, including full traceback, if possible.

• The exact python version used, with patch level:

  $ python -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"
  

• The exact version of PyMongo used (if applicable), with patch level:

  $ python -c "import pymongo; print(pymongo.version); print(pymongo.has_c())"
  

• The exact version of PyMongoExplain used:

  $ python -c "import pymongoexplain; print(pymongoexplain.version)"
  

PyMongoExplain requires CPython 3.7+, and PyPy3.7+.

PyMongoExplain requires PyMongo>=4.4

The easiest way to run the tests is to run pip install -e ".[test]"; python -m pytest in the root of the distribution.

PyMongo operations in existing application code can be explained by swapping Collection objects with ExplainableCollection objects. The ExplainableCollection class provides all CRUD API methods provided by PyMongo's Collection, but using this class to run operations runs explain on them, instead of executing them.

To run explain on a command, first instantiate an ExplainableCollection from the Collection object originally used to run the command:

from pymongoexplain import ExplainableCollection

collection = client.db.products
explain = ExplainableCollection(collection)

If you wish to configure the options for the explain command itself, pass them to the ExplainableCollection constructor like so:

explain = ExplainableCollection(collection, verbosity="queryPlanner",
                                comment="I'm a comment")

For more information see the documentation for the explain command.

Now you are ready to explain some commands. Remember that explaining a command does not execute it:

result = explain.update_one({"quantity": 1057, "category": "apparel"}, {"$set": {"reorder": True}})

Now result will contain the output of running explain on the given update_one command:

{'ok': 1.0,
 'operationTime': Timestamp(1595603051, 3),
 'queryPlanner': {'indexFilterSet': False,
                  'namespace': 'db.products',
                  'parsedQuery': {'$and': [{'category': {'$eq': 'apparel'}},
                                           {'quantity': {'$eq': 1057}}]},
                  'planCacheKey': 'CD8F6D8F',
                  'plannerVersion': 1,
                  'queryHash': 'CD8F6D8F',
                  'rejectedPlans': [],
                  'winningPlan': {'inputStage': {'direction': 'forward',
                                                 'filter': {'$and': [{'category': {'$eq': 'apparel'}},
                                                                     {'quantity': {'$eq': 1057}}]},
                                                 'stage': 'COLLSCAN'},
                                  'stage': 'UPDATE'}},
 'serverInfo': {'gitVersion': '27f5c1ee9f513f29fe30b8ebefed99581428c6e1',
                'host': 'Juliuss-MBP.verizon.net',
                'port': 27017,
                'version': '4.4.0-rc13'}}

Since ExplainableCollection instances provide all the same methods provided by Collection instances, explaining operations in your application code is a simple matter of replacing Collection instances in your application code with ExplainableCollection instances.

You can also run explain on all commands within a Python script using our CLI tool. Given a script that contains pymongo commands within it, you can simply run:

python3 -m pymongoexplain <path/to/your/script.py>

This will log the explain output for every single command within the specified script, in addition to running every command in the script itself. Do note that because the explain output is generated using the logging module, if your script configures logging module there are certain things to keep in mind:

• if your script sets the logging level higher than INFO, the explain output will be suppressed entirely.
• the explain output will be sent to whatever stream your script configures the logging module to send output to.

Any positional parameters or arguments required by your script can be simply be appended to the invocation as follows:

python3 -m pymongoexplain <path/to/your/script.py> [PARAMS] [--optname OPTS]

This package does not support the fluent Cursor API, so if you attempt to use it like so:

ExplainableCollection(collection).find({}).sort(...)

Instead pass all the arguments to the find() call, like so:

ExplainableCollection(collection).find({}, sort=...)