MONGOC_URI_GET_DATABASE(3)

💅 MONGOC_URI_GET_DATABASE 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the libmongoc manual, section 3 — this is the page for MONGOC_URI_GET_DATABASE, and it's a short one but she's iconic. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

const char *
mongoc_uri_get_database (const mongoc_uri_t *uri);

that's the whole signature, no cap. one function, one uri, one const char * coming back at you 🦋

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🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• uri — a mongoc_uri_t. that's it. that's the parameter. she's a URI struct and she's the main character 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this one fetches the database portion of a URI, if one was provided in the first place 👑

and where exactly does that live? it's literally the portion after the / but before the ?. that's the vibe check. slash on the left, question mark on the right, database in the middle. periodt 💀

side note bestie: "if provided" is doing real work in that sentence. no database in the URI, no database coming back — we'll get to that in a sec 🙈

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🦋 RETURNS 🦋

a string 🎀 — and important housekeeping: you should not modify it or free it. it's not yours, don't touch her. and if there's nothing to give you, she returns NULL 😭

so to recap the return value possibilities:

• a string (do not modify, do not free — fr fr, hands off) 💜
• NULL 🌈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — yeah, that MongoDB 💅

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. — the whole run, babes 🫶

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and that's the page!! short and sweet, just like she should be 🍓

okay so real talk, the tiny little sign-off at the bottom of the original said libmongoc 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026 — so if you're out here quoting this in a group chat, that's your version and date, mwah 💖✨🧚