Robomongo: Query failure if password contains apostrophe: "Connection error. Uninitialized mongo scope"

Created on 9 Mar 2017 · 13Comments · Source: Studio3T/robomongo

If a user's password includes the single-quote (apostrophe) character ' , then it is possible for RoboMongo to connect as this user, but when you try to execute a query in a tab it fails with the following feedback dialog:

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Error
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Failed to execute script.

Error:
Connection error. Uninitialized mongo scope.
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OK   
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The window also shows "Script executed successfully, but there are no results to show."

Steps to reproduce:

In the mongo shell, create a user with a suitable role and a password which includes an apostrophe (see attached screenshot 101)
In the mongo shell, verify the account can be used to authenticate and to execute a query OK (screenshot 102)
In RoboMongo, configure a connection which authenticates with this user account; the Test button confirms that it can connect OK (screenshot 103)
In RoboMongo, open this connection; it connects OK, and can show collections OK (screenshot 104)
In RoboMongo, View Documents on one of the listed collections
_Expected result: the find() query returns the documents in the collections_
Actual result: the find() query fails with the error as described above (screenshot 105)

Note: this problem does _not_ occur if the password has no apostrophe; I have tested with a wide variety of other punctuation characters, but only the apostrophe seems to cause RoboMongo's connection to fail.

Environment:

server: MongoDB 3.0.12
app: RoboMongo 1.0-RC1 on Windows 10 64-bit
authentication method: SCRAM-SHA1.

001_v1.0-RC1_bug_report_screenshots.zip

enhancement needs investigation

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vincebowdren

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This error still present. My username, my password doesnt have any special characters.

Lucas63 on 23 Aug 2017

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Hi @vincebowdren , thanks for reporting the problem.
Can you double check the screenshots? Were they supposed to be links?

simsekgokhan on 9 Mar 2017

Sorry, forgot to attach them :(-
Fixed now :)-

vincebowdren on 9 Mar 2017

Hi @vincebowdren , I have reproduced the problem. We will investigate.
Can you let us know if you are able to do your work if you do not use apostrophe in password for now?

simsekgokhan on 13 Mar 2017

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Oh yes, I've changed the account password to something without any apostrophes, and we're happily getting on with things. Thanks for asking!

vincebowdren on 13 Mar 2017

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This error still present. My username, my password doesnt have any special characters.

Lucas63 on 23 Aug 2017

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Do we have any updates on this issue? My password doesn't have an apostrophe but I am still getting the error mentioned above.