Is it possible to ping mongodb from pymongo

Question

M using pymongo for connecting with a mLab-hosted mongodb.

I need to keep pinging the server occassionally to keep the connection alive.

I have not been able to find documentation for that.

Kindly suggest the pymongo equivalent of ping command.

Answer 1

You can use pymongo.database.Database.command to send custom command like:

from pymongo import MongoClient
client = MongoClient()
client.db_name.command('ping')

returns

{u'ok': 1.0}