.\" Man page generated from reStructuredText. . .TH "BSON_NEW_FROM_JSON" "3" "Jun 04, 2021" "1.17.6" "libbson" .SH NAME bson_new_from_json \- bson_new_from_json() . .nr rst2man-indent-level 0 . .de1 rstReportMargin \\$1 \\n[an-margin] level \\n[rst2man-indent-level] level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] - \\n[rst2man-indent0] \\n[rst2man-indent1] \\n[rst2man-indent2] .. .de1 INDENT .\" .rstReportMargin pre: . RS \\$1 . nr rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level] \\n[an-margin] . nr rst2man-indent-level +1 .\" .rstReportMargin post: .. .de UNINDENT . RE .\" indent \\n[an-margin] .\" old: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .nr rst2man-indent-level -1 .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. .SH SYNOPSIS .INDENT 0.0 .INDENT 3.5 .sp .nf .ft C bson_t * bson_new_from_json (const uint8_t *data, ssize_t len, bson_error_t *error); .ft P .fi .UNINDENT .UNINDENT .SH PARAMETERS .INDENT 0.0 .IP \(bu 2 \fBdata\fP: A UTF\-8 encoded string containing valid JSON. .IP \(bu 2 \fBlen\fP: The length of \fBdata\fP in bytes excluding a trailing \fB\e0\fP or \-1 to determine the length with \fBstrlen()\fP\&. .IP \(bu 2 \fBerror\fP: An optional location for a \fBbson_error_t\fP\&. .UNINDENT .SH DESCRIPTION .sp The \fBbson_new_from_json()\fP function allocates and initialize a new \fBbson_t\fP by parsing the JSON found in \fBdata\fP\&. Only a single JSON object may exist in \fBdata\fP or an error will be set and NULL returned. .SH ERRORS .sp Errors are propagated via the \fBerror\fP parameter. .SH RETURNS .sp A newly allocated \fBbson_t\fP if successful, otherwise NULL and \fBerror\fP is set. .SH AUTHOR MongoDB, Inc .SH COPYRIGHT 2017-present, MongoDB, Inc .\" Generated by docutils manpage writer. .