READING FROM A BSON STREAM

       bson_reader_t  provides  a  convenient  API  to  read sequential BSON documents from a file-descriptor or
       memory buffer. The bson_reader_read() function will read forward in the underlying stream  and  return  a
       bson_t that can be inspected and iterated upon.

          #include <stdio.h>
          #include <bson/bson.h>

          int
          main (int argc, char *argv[])
          {
             bson_reader_t *reader;
             const bson_t *doc;
             bson_error_t error;
             bool eof;

             reader = bson_reader_new_from_file ("mycollection.bson", &error);

             if (!reader) {
                fprintf (stderr, "Failed to open file.\n");
                return 1;
             }

             while ((doc = bson_reader_read (reader, &eof))) {
                char *str = bson_as_canonical_extended_json (doc, NULL);
                printf ("%s\n", str);
                bson_free (str);
             }

             if (!eof) {
                fprintf (stderr,
                         "corrupted bson document found at %u\n",
                         (unsigned) bson_reader_tell (reader));
             }

             bson_reader_destroy (reader);

             return 0;
          }

       See  bson_reader_new_from_fd(),  bson_reader_new_from_file(),  and  bson_reader_new_from_data()  for more
       information.

WRITING A SEQUENCE OF BSON DOCUMENTS

       bson_writer_t provides a convenient API to write a sequence of BSON documents to a memory buffer that can
       grow with realloc(). The bson_writer_begin() and bson_writer_end() functions will manage  the  underlying
       buffer while building the sequence of documents.

       This could also be useful if you want to write to a network packet while serializing the documents from a
       higher level language, (but do so just after the packets header).

          #include <stdio.h>
          #include <bson/bson.h>
          #include <assert.h>

          int
          main (int argc, char *argv[])
          {
             bson_writer_t *writer;
             bson_t *doc;
             uint8_t *buf = NULL;
             size_t buflen = 0;
             bool r;
             int i;

             writer = bson_writer_new (&buf, &buflen, 0, bson_realloc_ctx, NULL);

             for (i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
                r = bson_writer_begin (writer, &doc);
                assert (r);

                r = BSON_APPEND_INT32 (doc, "i", i);
                assert (r);

                bson_writer_end (writer);
             }

             bson_free (buf);

             return 0;
          }

       See bson_writer_new() for more information.

AUTHOR

       MongoDB, Inc

COPYRIGHT

       2017-present, MongoDB, Inc

1.26.0                                            Mar 31, 2024                            BSON_STREAMING_BSON(3)