Adding forced connection on start up

Author: Aayush-Agnihotri

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,23 +1,37 @@
-# Contributing to Ithaca Transit Backend
+# Contributing to Score Backend
+
 👍🎉 First off, congrats on getting put on this pod 😂🎉👍
 
 The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to our backend. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
 
 # Versioning
+
 This is _extremely_ important as handling our backend can get quite messy.
 
 # Making PRs
+
 We want our PRs to be concise but informative. Some pointers as per our PR template:
+
 ### Title
+
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+
 ### Overview
+
 Summarize generally what the purpose of this PR is.
+
 ### Changes
+
 Include details of what your changes actually are and how it is intended to work.
+
 ### Test Coverage
+
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+
 ### Next Steps
+
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+
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requirements.txt

@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ pillow
 Flask-APScheduler
 python-dotenv
 pytz
-gunicorn
+gunicorn

src/database.py

@@ -1,19 +1,46 @@
 from pymongo import MongoClient
 import os
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
+import threading
+import time
 
 load_dotenv()
 
+# Determine certificate path and TLS usage
 if os.getenv("STAGE") == "local":
-  file_name = "ca-certificate.crt"
-  use_tls = os.getenv("MONGO_URI") != "mongodb://localhost:27017/"
+    file_name = "ca-certificate.crt"
+    use_tls = os.getenv("MONGO_URI") != "mongodb://localhost:27017/"
 else:
-  file_name = "/etc/ssl/ca-certificate.crt"
-  use_tls = True
+    file_name = "/etc/ssl/ca-certificate.crt"
+    use_tls = True
 
+# Initialize MongoDB client
 if use_tls:
     client = MongoClient(os.getenv("MONGO_URI"), tls=True, tlsCAFile=file_name)
 else:
     client = MongoClient(os.getenv("MONGO_URI"))
 
+# Force connection on startup
+try:
+    client.admin.command("ping")
+    print("✅ MongoDB connection successful on startup")
+except Exception as e:
+    print(f"❌ MongoDB connection failed on startup: {e}")
+    raise e
+
+
+# Start a keep-alive thread
+def keep_connection_alive():
+    while True:
+        try:
+            client.admin.command("ping")
+            print("🔁 MongoDB keep-alive ping successful")
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"⚠️ MongoDB keep-alive ping failed: {e}")
+        time.sleep(300)  # ping every 5 minutes
+
+
+threading.Thread(target=keep_connection_alive, daemon=True).start()
+
+# Access the database
 db = client[os.getenv("MONGO_DB", "score_db")]