add: initial database connection attempt

README.md

@@ -41,3 +41,5 @@ This project requires the use of MongoDB. To use the application, a MongoDB Atla
 11. You have now created a database deployment, but you will still have to configure the connection to the database. 
 
 ### Database connection
+1. To create a connection with the database, 
+![alt text](image.png)
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server/.gitignore

+# MongoDB connection certificate
+X509-cert-2722575229130410888.pem
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server/main.py

+from flask import Flask, jsonify
+from pymongo import MongoClient
+from pymongo.server_api import ServerApi
+
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+# Default route
+@app.route('/')
+def home():
+    return jsonify(message='Welcome to the API!')
+
+
+# Example endpoint
+@app.route('/api/data', methods=['GET'])
+def get_data():
+    data = {'example_data': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}
+    return jsonify(data)
+
+
+
+# Initialise database connection
+def init_db():
+    # Initialise database connection
+    uri = "mongodb+srv://icemapcluster.i02epob.mongodb.net/?authSource=%24external&authMechanism=MONGODB-X509&retryWrites=true&w=majority"
+    
+    try:
+        client = MongoClient(uri,
+                            tls=True,
+                            tlsCertificateKeyFile='server/X509-cert-2722575229130410888.pem',
+                            server_api=ServerApi('1'))
+
+        db = client['IceMapDatabase']
+        collection = db['GeoDataCollection']
+
+        # Ping to check connection
+        client.admin.command('ping')
+
+        print("Connected to MongoDB!")
+
+    except ConnectionFailure as e:
+        print(f"Failed to connect to MongoDB: {e}")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    init_db()
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