Is that a normal practice to use direct access to MongoDB?

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Is that a normal practice to use direct access to MongoDB for complicated requests bypassing Parse wrapper?

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I’d try to keep all the queries as much as possible through Parse. You can also use aggregate, which give you a lot more flexibility. Could you give an example of query that you wanted to bypass Parse and why?

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That is more for the future, not for existing cases. I will try to use only Parse API of course. I have the case where I must use transaction in a good way but put aside it at this moment. You wrote that transactions “supported via REST API” and I wanted an alternative. And alternative for whatever may be.

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You usually don’t. I used to use it for aggregation, but now it’s included.
I still use it for searches that use collation indexes. Those queries only return ids, then I do a standard Parse query.
Oh, and I still use it to login on the server (and get a sessionToken) and getting a user from a sessionToken. Maybe it’s possible using standard Parse API, but I don’t know how.

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Parse.User.login() retrieves the session token and user data automatically and saves them to local storage.

await Parse.User.logIn(data.email, data.password, {
   success: onSuccess(),
});
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logIn can indeed be used on the server, to get a sessionToken, but there’s no local storage on the server :slight_smile:

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