MongoDB Atlas mongoimport issues cannot decode array into a D

Question

I'm new to mongoDB and have a free Atlas account. But, I'm having issues with the mongo import.

system: windows

>mongo --version MongoDB shell version v4.2.0 git version: a4b751dcf51dd249c5865812b390cfd1c0129c30 allocator: tcmalloc modules: none build environment:     distmod: 2012plus     distarch: x86_64     target_arch: x86_64 

mongoimport string:

mongoimport --host Cluster0-shard-0/cluster0-shard-00-00-MY.mongodb.net:27017,cluster0-shard-00-01-MY.mongodb.net:27017,cluster0-shard-00-02-MY.mongodb.net:27017 --ssl --username MYUSER --password MYPASS --authenticationDatabase admin --db db --collection coll --type json --file D:\downloads\records.json 

But I keep getting this error:

2019-09-28T15:40:33.108-0600    WARNING: ignoring unsupported URI parameter 'replicaset' 2019-09-28T15:40:33.933-0600    connected to: mongodb://cluster... 2019-09-28T15:40:34.076-0600    Failed: cannot decode array into a D 2019-09-28T15:40:34.076-0600    0 document(s) imported successfully. 0 document(s) failed to import. 

Answer 1

I just figured out. I had a JSON Array in the file, and for that, I had to append

--jsonArray 

It is documented here

with the URL provided.

Hope this helps!