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+// This file establishes conenction to the mongodb. Connection is used by the applicaiton and initialized
+// when it loads during starup . This is registered in the root level index.js
+
+// require mongoose module
+const fp = require("fastify-plugin");
+const db = require("mongoose");
+db.set("useFindAndModify", false);
+// require clak module to give colors to console text.
+var chalk = require("chalk");
+
+const boom = require("boom");
+
+  
+// Define colors for db messages on cosole.
+
+var connected = chalk.bold.cyan;
+var error = chalk.bold.yellow;
+var disconnected = chalk.bold.red;
+var termination = chalk.bold.magenta;
+
+// TODO
+// Need to read database url from a environment variable.
+// const databaseURL = "mongodb://armintatankdbuser:armintatank1@35.207.198.4:27017/arminta-tank-db;
+const databaseURLNew = "mongodb://35.207.198.4:27017/arminta-tank-db";
+//const databaseURLNew = "mongodb://35.200.129.165:27017/health-care-db";
+
+// const databaseURLNew = "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/arminta-tank-db";
+// Next line not used , or no need to pass default db in the mongo connection url.
+const defaultDatabase = "arminta-tank-db";
+
+//export this function and imported by server.js
+
+
+async function dbConnection() {
+  try {
+     db.connect(databaseURLNew, { user: "armintatankdbuser", pass: "armintatank1" , useUnifiedTopology: true, });
+    //db.connect(databaseURLNew, { user: "healthcaredbuser01", pass: "healthcare01" , useUnifiedTopology: true, });
+
+    // db.connect(databaseURLNew)
+    db.connection.on("connected", function () {
+      console.log(
+        connected("Mongoose default connection is open to ", databaseURLNew)
+      );
+
+     
+      
+    });
+
+    db.connection.on("error", function (err) {
+      console.log(
+        error("Mongoose default connection has occured " + err + " error")
+      );
+    });
+
+    db.connection.on("disconnected", function () {
+      console.log(disconnected("Mongoose default connection is disconnected"));
+    });
+
+    process.on("SIGINT", function () {
+      db.connection.close(function () {
+        console.log(
+          termination(
+            "Mongoose default connection is disconnected due to application termination"
+          )
+        );
+        process.exit(0);
+      });
+    });
+  } catch (err) {
+    throw boom.boomify(err);
+  }
+}
+
+
+
+module.exports = fp(dbConnection, { fastify: ">=1.0.0" });