An implementation of the BSON specification in Ruby.
BSON is tested against MRI (1.9.2+), JRuby (1.7.0+) and Rubinius (2.0.0+).
With bundler, add the bson gem to your Gemfile. As of 2.0.0 native extensions
are bundled with the bson gem and bson_ext is no longer needed.
gem "bson", "~> 2.2"Require the bson gem in your application.
require "bson"Getting a Ruby object's raw BSON representation is done by calling to_bson
on the Ruby object. For example:
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day".to_bson
1024.to_bsonGenerating an object from BSON is done via calling from_bson on the class
you wish to instantiate and passing it the StringIO bytes.
String.from_bson(string_io)
Int32.from_bson(string_io)Core Ruby object's that have representations in the BSON specification and
will have a to_bson method defined for them are:
ArrayFalseClassFloatHashIntegerNilClassRegexpStringSymbol(deprecated)TimeTrueClass
In addition to the core Ruby objects, BSON also provides some special types specific to the specification:
This is a representation of binary data, and must provide the raw data and a subtype when constructing.
BSON::Binary.new(binary_data, :md5)Valid subtypes are: :generic, :function, :old, :uuid_old, :uuid,
:md5, :user.
Represents a string of Javascript code.
BSON::Code.new("this.value = 5;")Represents a string of Javascript code with a hash of values.
BSON::CodeWithScope.new("this.value = age;", age: 5)This is a special ordered hash for use with Ruby below 1.9, and is simply a subclass of a Ruby hash in 1.9 and higher.
BSON::Document[:key, "value"]
BSON::Document.newRepresents a value in BSON that will always compare higher to another value.
BSON::MaxKey.newRepresents a value in BSON that will always compare lower to another value.
BSON::MinKey.newRepresents a 12 byte unique identifier for an object on a given machine.
BSON::ObjectId.newRepresents a special time with a start and increment value.
BSON::Timestamp.new(5, 30)Represents a placeholder for a value that was not provided.
BSON::Undefined.newSome BSON types have special representations in JSON. These are as follows
and will be automatically serialized in the form when calling to_json on
them.
BSON::Binary:{ "$binary" : "\x01", "$type" : "md5" }BSON::Code:{ "$code" : "this.v = 5 }BSON::CodeWithScope:{ "$code" : "this.v = value", "$scope" : { v => 5 }}BSON::MaxKey:{ "$maxKey" : 1 }BSON::MinKey:{ "$minKey" : 1 }BSON::ObjectId:{ "$oid" : "4e4d66343b39b68407000001" }BSON::Timestamp:{ "t" : 5, "i" : 30 }Regexp:{ "$regex" : "[abc]", "$options" : "i" }
As of 2.1.0, Ruby's Date and DateTime are able to be serialized, but when
they are deserialized they will always be returned as a Time since the BSON
specification only has a Time type and knows nothing about Ruby.
The API Documentation is located at rdoc.info.
The BSON specification is at bsonspec.org.
As of 2.0.0, this project adheres to the Semantic Versioning Specification.
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