changing to mongodb storage using the dashboard fails on install of the adapter. about strapi

[loicsaintroch]

If I understand correctly, the sails-mongo fails to install, right? I like your second suggestion though. We'll think about it. Thanks!

About the adapters installation, it was on our roadmap, I will work on it tomorrow.

[ogrotten]

Yes it appeared that sails-mongo could not be installed 2nd hand by strapi.

IIRC, when I was originally experiementing with sails/sails-mongo, I had a stop at kerberos during compile.

[loicsaintroch]

We just made the auto install for adapters today. It will be published tomorrow for the v1.1.0.

But it's strange you have an issue during the installation of sails-mongo. It looks like its because of node-gyp. Did you try with Node.js v0.12.7 or Node.js v4.1.2?

[ogrotten]

i'm using 12.5

(side note: node-gyp is the bane of my existance because it's consistently in the way during installations. It's the main thing that keeps me from setting up on windows as it wants to compile on install, and there's no such thing as a windows 'build-essential')

[loicsaintroch]

This is a common issue due to node-gyp and bson compatibilities for almost two years now.

As far as I can tell, this is not a Strapi issue...

[ogrotten]

The node-gyp issue is not. However, the ticket is about strapi automated install of a db adapter that fails. In other words, when trying to use a feature of the app (set up mongodb), the feature is unusable.

I'm not suggesting that you fix the node-gyp problem. I'm suggesting that there may be some solution to get the adapter to install appropriately for strapi's purposes.

[loicsaintroch]

I'm not sure to understand what you want. There is no way for us to override the npm installation if that's what you mean.

[ogrotten]

Not necessarily override, but i'm suggesting that perhaps there's another solution... something like load your own working install of the failing lib, or install a precompiled binary, or use even an altogether different solution for the same function.

I obviously am just a guy using your app so am not privvy to the details, but what I'm suggesting is that there may a way to make strapi work past this particular problem in a way that isn't immediatly obvious. Because, whatever the reason and unless I missed something, strapi currently isn't useful with mongodb.

[loicsaintroch]

I honestly don't know what to answer to this issue except that this is not an issue on our side but from the sails-mongo adapter. I know @tjwebb is working hard on Waterline and the migration of adapters from Sails to Waterline so he might have a solution about this.

On our side, I can't think of a magical solution...

[loicsaintroch]

Hi @perminder-klair. Unfortunately, this is not an issue on our side but an issue with the sails-mongo node module. There is nothing we can do here... Sorry.