mognodb database name is hardcoded in all Models

[pkjoshisbp]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Generate any model with MongoGii.

What is the expected result?

The model should take only collection name like mysql table. else problem is, if I copy the setup to another instance, I need to manually find and replace all occurrences of database-name. when we are already providing the database name in config, why it needs the db info from model.

What do you get instead?

Additional info

Q	A
Yii version	2.0.31
PHP version	7.2.24
Operating system	Ubuntu Linux 18.04

[samdark]

The solution sounds like the one breaking backwards compatibility. Am I correct? We may do it in 2.2.0.

[pkjoshisbp]

I didn't get what you mean by "breaking backwards compatibility". What I am trying to say is like assume I have one yii2 where I have 50 collections.
I copy the whole yii2 setup for another application for reuse. Now in the new setup the database name is different. Since db-name is included in all the 50 models, I have to replace all occurrences of db-name in all models.
In MySQL model we return only table name, so I think we can use only collection-name for mongodb model.
please let me know if you need any other info.

[samdark]

"breaking backwards compatibility" means that if we'll replace database name with collection name, existing applications that relied on the old behavior may break.

[pkjoshisbp]

yes samdark. that is correct. if we change the database name only in config file and don't make change in all models it will break. collection-name remaining same.