The bson npm package is a library that allows you to serialize and deserialize data in BSON format. BSON, short for Binary JSON, is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents. It is designed to be efficient in both storage space and scan-speed. The bson package is commonly used when working with MongoDB, as MongoDB uses BSON as its document storage format.

What are bson's main functionalities?

Serialization

This feature allows you to convert a JavaScript object into a BSON formatted buffer. This is useful for storing and transmitting data in a compact binary form.

{"const BSON = require('bson'); const bson = new BSON(); const doc = { hello: 'world' }; const data = bson.serialize(doc); console.log(data); // <Buffer 16 00 00 00 02 68 65 6c 6c 6f 00 06 00 00 00 77 6f 72 6c 64 00 00>"}

Deserialization

This feature allows you to convert BSON data back into a JavaScript object. This is useful when you need to read data that was stored or transmitted in BSON format.

{"const BSON = require('bson'); const bson = new BSON(); const data = Buffer.from('160000000268656c6c6f0006000000776f726c640000', 'hex'); const doc = bson.deserialize(data); console.log(doc); // { hello: 'world' }"}

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Javascript + C++ BSON parser

This BSON parser is primarily meant for usage with the mongodb node.js driver. However thanks to such wonderful tools at onejs we are able to package up a BSON parser that will work in the browser aswell. The current build is located in the browser_build/bson.js file.

A simple example on how to use it

<head>
  <script src="https://raw.github.com/mongodb/js-bson/master/browser_build/bson.js">
  </script>
</head>
<body onload="start();">
<script>
  function start() {
    var BSON = bson().BSON;
    var Long = bson().Long;

    var doc = {long: Long.fromNumber(100)}

    // Serialize a document
    var data = BSON.serialize(doc, false, true, false);
    // De serialize it again
    var doc_2 = BSON.deserialize(data);
  }
</script>
</body>

It's got two simple methods to use in your application.

BSON.serialize(object, checkKeys, asBuffer, serializeFunctions)
- @param {Object} object the Javascript object to serialize.
- @param {Boolean} checkKeys the serializer will check if keys are valid.
- @param {Boolean} asBuffer return the serialized object as a Buffer object (ignore).
- @param {Boolean} serializeFunctions serialize the javascript functions (default:false)
- @return {TypedArray/Array} returns a TypedArray or Array depending on what your browser supports
BSON.deserialize(buffer, options, isArray)
- Options
  - evalFunctions {Boolean, default:false}, evaluate functions in the BSON document scoped to the object deserialized.
  - cacheFunctions {Boolean, default:false}, cache evaluated functions for reuse.
  - cacheFunctionsCrc32 {Boolean, default:false}, use a crc32 code for caching, otherwise use the string of the function.
- @param {TypedArray/Array} a TypedArray/Array containing the BSON data
- @param {Object} [options] additional options used for the deserialization.
- @param {Boolean} [isArray] ignore used for recursive parsing.
- @return {Object} returns the deserialized Javascript Object.

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Last updated on 26 Feb 2014

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