Starting Mongo inside a mix Task

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I need to run some commands on a Mongo database from within a custom mix task. I’m using the mongodb driver.

The task module looks like this:

defmodule Mix.Tasks.Mongo.Stuff do
  use Mix.Task

  @shortdoc "Does stuff to mongo..."
  def run(_) do
    {:ok, _pid} = Mongo.start_link(Application.get_env(:db, DocDb))
    Mongo.find_one(:docdb, "the_collection", %{id: 456})
  end
end

and the relevant bit of the config looks like this:

config :db, DocDb,
  url: "mongodb://localhost:27017/docdb_dev",
  name: :docdb

This seems to get Mongo started (?) but it generates a spooky error:

mix mongo.stuff
Compiling 1 file (.ex)
** (EXIT from #PID<0.92.0>) an exception was raised:
    ** (ArgumentError) argument error
        :erlang.!(Mongo.Events, {:notify, %Mongo.Events.TopologyOpeningEvent{topology_pid: #PID<0.305.0>}})
        (stdlib) gen_event.erl:269: :gen_event.send/2
        lib/mongo/topology.ex:70: Mongo.Topology.init/1
        (stdlib) gen_server.erl:374: :gen_server.init_it/2
        (stdlib) gen_server.erl:342: :gen_server.init_it/6
        (stdlib) proc_lib.erl:249: :proc_lib.init_p_do_apply/3

I’m not even sure what I’m looking at. Can someone help set me straight? Thanks!

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mix tasks don’t start your or any other applications. When you need some, you need to start them manually using Application.ensure_all_started/1.

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