NAME¶

CONVERTING BSON TO JSON¶

CONVERT TO JSON¶

bson_t *b;
size_t len;
char *str;
b = BCON_NEW ("a", BCON_INT32 (1));
str = bson_as_json (b, &len);
printf ("%s\n", str);
bson_free (str);
bson_destroy (b);

{ a : 1 }

CONVERTING JSON TO BSON¶

The following example creates a new bson_t from the JSON string {"a":1}

CONVERT FROM JSON¶

bson_t *b;
bson_error_t error;
b = bson_new_from_json ("{\"a\":1}", ‐1, &error);
if (!b) {
   printf ("Error: %s\n", error.message);
} else {
   bson_destroy (b);
}

STREAMING JSON PARSING¶

JSON-TO-BSON.C¶

/*
 * Copyright 2013 MongoDB, Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE‐2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
/*
 * This program will print each JSON document contained in the provided files
 * as a BSON string to STDOUT.
 */
#include <bson.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (int   argc,
      char *argv[])
{
   bson_json_reader_t *reader;
   bson_error_t error;
   const char *filename;
   bson_t doc = BSON_INITIALIZER;
   int i;
   int b;
   /*
    * Print program usage if no arguments are provided.
    */
   if (argc == 1) {
      fprintf (stderr, "usage: %s FILE...\n", argv[0]);
      return 1;
   }
   /*
    * Process command line arguments expecting each to be a filename.
    */
   for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
      filename = argv[i];
      /*
       * Open the filename provided in command line arguments.
       */
      if (0 == strcmp (filename, "‐")) {
         reader = bson_json_reader_new_from_fd (STDIN_FILENO, false);
      } else {
         if (!(reader = bson_json_reader_new_from_file (filename, &error))) {
            fprintf (stderr, "Failed to open \"%s\": %s\n",
                     filename, error.message);
            continue;
         }
      }
      /*
       * Convert each incoming document to BSON and print to stdout.
       */
      while ((b = bson_json_reader_read (reader, &doc, &error))) {
         if (b < 0) {
            fprintf (stderr, "Error in json parsing:\n%s\n", error.message);
            abort ();
         }
         if (fwrite (bson_get_data(&doc), 1, doc.len, stdout) != doc.len) {
            fprintf (stderr, "Failed to write to stdout, exiting.\n");
            exit (1);
         }
         bson_reinit (&doc);
      }
      bson_json_reader_destroy (reader);
      bson_destroy (&doc);
   }
   return 0;
}

EXAMPLES¶

BSON-TO-JSON.C¶

/*
 * Copyright 2013 MongoDB, Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE‐2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
/*
 * This program will print each BSON document contained in the provided files
 * as a JSON string to STDOUT.
 */
#include <bson.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main (int   argc,
      char *argv[])
{
   bson_reader_t *reader;
   const bson_t *b;
   bson_error_t error;
   const char *filename;
   char *str;
   int i;
   /*
    * Print program usage if no arguments are provided.
    */
   if (argc == 1) {
      fprintf(stderr,
              "usage: %s [FILE | ‐]...\nUse ‐ for STDIN.\n",
              argv[0]);
      return 1;
   }
   /*
    * Process command line arguments expecting each to be a filename.
    */
   for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
      filename = argv[i];
      if (strcmp (filename, "‐") == 0) {
         reader = bson_reader_new_from_fd (STDIN_FILENO, false);
      } else {
         if (!(reader = bson_reader_new_from_file (filename, &error))) {
            fprintf (stderr, "Failed to open \"%s\": %s\n",
                     filename, error.message);
            continue;
         }
      }
      /*
       * Convert each incoming document to JSON and print to stdout.
       */
      while ((b = bson_reader_read (reader, NULL))) {
         str = bson_as_json(b, NULL);
         fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", str);
         bson_free(str);
      }
      /*
       * Cleanup after our reader, which closes the file descriptor.
       */
      bson_reader_destroy (reader);
   }
   return 0;
}

COLOPHON¶