MONGOC_URI_SET_COMPRESSORS(3)

💅 MONGOC_URI_SET_COMPRESSORS 💅

okay so bestie, we're in libmongoc land and today's main character is mongoc_uri_set_compressors — the little function that decides which compressors your URI is gonna flex with. iykyk 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool
mongoc_uri_set_compressors (mongoc_uri_t *uri, const char *compressors);

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• uri — a mongoc_uri_t. your uri. the one getting a glow-up 💅
• compressors — a string with one or more compressor names separated by commas (,) — for example "snappy,zlib" — or NULL. and here's the tea: passing NULL or an empty string clears any compressors already set on uri. poof, gone, no cap 🫧

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this sets the URI's compressors after the URI has already been parsed from a string. the way it just overwrites any previously set value? iconic. previous value could never 💀

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

mongoc_client_t *client;
mongoc_uri_t *uri;

uri = mongoc_uri_new ("mongodb://localhost/");
mongoc_uri_set_compressors (uri, "snappy,zlib,zstd");
mongoc_client_new_from_uri (uri);
/* Snappy & zlib & zstd compressors are enabled */

look at that. Snappy & zlib & zstd all enabled, all living their best life ✨

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⭐ RETURNS ⭐

returns false if the option can't be set — like, for example, if compressors isn't valid UTF-8 😭. and heads up: it logs a warning to stderr with the MONGOC_WARNING macro if compressor is not available.

ngl if you see that warning, your compressor just wasn't in the building 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this was libmongoc 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026, signing off with love 🫶💖✨