Question

mongodb version v1.8.0 on Mac 10.6.8.

I’m trying to run a mongoimport on a TSV (tab separated value) file.

For some reason, it’s ignoring blank fields even though I’m not using the –ignoreBlanks switch. At least, I think that’s what’s happening.

You can download my test file here: http://pastebin.com/9XzbDfgP

Here’s my mongoimport command:

mongoimport --drop --headerline --type tsv -d movies -c performances --file ~/Desktop/100performance.tsv 

So what happens is it ends up importing the wrong fields into the wrong field names (headers). And it leaves off some of the fields. It’s having trouble with blank fields. I populated some of those blank fields and it seemed to do better. That’s not a real fix though, obviously.

Ideas?

Answer 1

This is working for me now using mongodb/mongoimport v2.0.1.