MongoDB connection string with options

My mongodb connection string looks like: “mongodb://user:password@localhost:27017/Identity?ssl=true&authSource=admin” when I break it to MongoDbSettings as

"MongoDbSettings": { "ConnectionString": "mongodb://user:password@localhost:27017/", "DatabaseName": "Identity?ssl=true&authSource=admin" }

I can’t connect to the database, am I doing something wrong?

[alexandre-spieser]

Currently, there is no interface allowing you to pass an SSL cert, but you can easily create a custom class inheriting from MongoDbContext with your desired parameters and pass it to the extension:

        public static IdentityBuilder AddMongoDbStores<TUser, TRole, TKey>(this IdentityBuilder builder, IMongoDbContext mongoDbContext)
                    where TUser : MongoIdentityUser<TKey>, new()
                    where TRole : MongoIdentityRole<TKey>, new()
                    where TKey : IEquatable<TKey>

To create a MongoDbContext, you can look in the MongoDbGenericRepository documentation, which is a dependency from the AspNetCore.Identity.MongoDbCore nuget package.

var client = new MongoClient(connectionString);
var mongoDbDatabase = Client.GetDatabase(databaseName);

There is a MongoDbContext constructor that takes a MongoDbDatabase.

        /// <summary>
        /// The constructor of the MongoDbContext, it needs an object implementing <see cref="IMongoDatabase"/>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="mongoDatabase">An object implementing IMongoDatabase</param>
        public MongoDbContext(IMongoDatabase mongoDatabase)
        {
            // Avoid legacy UUID representation: use Binary 0x04 subtype.
            InitializeGuidRepresentation();
            Database = mongoDatabase;
            Client = Database.Client;
        }

You can use a custom class inheriting from MongoDbContext that implements all the functionality you need, including a constructor or methods that take a certificate. The current implementation can be seen here.

[renatogbp]

Thanks! Where do I set the certificate path and password for the SSL hand shake?