Connecting to MongoDB from spring boot app using ssl

Question

im trying to connect my spring boot app to mongodb using ssl. I followed the steps described here, but they dont work for me.

https://www.compose.com/articles/how-to-connecting-to-compose-mongodb-with-java-and-ssl/

any idea?

Thanks Alem

Answer 1

I would suggest that you look at Accessing Data with MongoDB available here https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-mongodb/ for basic usage examples. spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb will get you a long way, what you need to do is configure a MongoClientOptions bean like this

    @Bean
    public  MongoClientOptions mongoClientOptions(){
        System.setProperty ("javax.net.ssl.keyStore","<<PATH TO KEYSTOR >>");
        System.setProperty ("javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword","PASSWORD");   
        MongoClientOptions.Builder builder = MongoClientOptions.builder();
        MongoClientOptions options=builder.sslEnabled(true).build();        
        return options;
    }

and pass the mongo client options to MongoClient instance as an argument as follows

public MongoClient(ServerAddress addr, MongoClientOptions options) {
        super(addr, options);
    }

Adding further, when mongo processs is started with

mongo --ssl --sslAllowInvalidCertificates --host --port

clients connecting to the mongo process dont have to set any options to support this.

I used this post Spring data mongodb, how to set SSL? and this spring.io guide as reference.

Hope that it helps