Client Side Document Matching

Basic Document Matching

The MongoDB C driver supports matching a subset of the MongoDB query specification on the client.

Currently, basic numeric and string equality, $gt, $gte, $lt, $lte, $in, $nin, $ne, $exists, $type are supported. As this is not the same implemenation as the MongoDB server, some inconsitencies may occur. Please file a bug if you find such a case.

The following example performs a basic query against a BSON document.

example-matcher.c

#include <bcon.h>
#include <mongoc.h>
#include <stdio.h>

static void
log_query (const bson_t *doc,
           const bson_t *query)
{
   char *str1;
   char *str2;

   str1 = bson_as_json (doc, NULL);
   str2 = bson_as_json (query, NULL);

   printf ("Matching %s against %s\n", str2, str1);

   bson_free (str1);
   bson_free (str2);
}

static void
example (void)
{
   mongoc_matcher_t *matcher;
   bson_error_t error;
   bson_t *query;
   bson_t *doc;

   doc = BCON_NEW ("hello", "[", "{", "foo", BCON_UTF8 ("bar"), "}", "]");
   query = BCON_NEW ("hello.0.foo", BCON_UTF8 ("bar"));

   log_query (doc, query);

   matcher = mongoc_matcher_new (query, &error);
   if (!matcher) {
      fprintf (stderr, "Error: %s\n", error.message);
      bson_destroy (query);
      bson_destroy (doc);
      return;
   }

   if (mongoc_matcher_match (matcher, doc)) {
      printf ("  Document matched!\n");
   }

   bson_destroy (query);
   bson_destroy (doc);
   mongoc_matcher_destroy (matcher);
}

int
main (int argc,
      char *argv[])
{
   mongoc_init ();
   example ();
   mongoc_cleanup ();

   return 0;
}

The following example shows how to process a BSON stream from stdin and match it against a query. This can be useful if you need to perform simple matching against mongodump backups.

filter-bsondump.c

/*
 * Copyright 2014 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.
 */


#include <bcon.h>
#include <bson.h>
#include <mongoc.h>
#include <stdio.h>


/*
 * This is an example that reads BSON documents from STDIN and prints them
 * to standard output as JSON if they match {'hello': 'world'}.
 */


int
main (int   argc,
      char *argv[])
{
   mongoc_matcher_t *matcher;
   bson_reader_t *reader;
   const bson_t *bson;
   bson_t *spec;
   char *str;
   int fd;

   mongoc_init ();

#ifdef _WIN32
   fd = fileno (stdin);
#else
   fd = STDIN_FILENO;
#endif

   reader = bson_reader_new_from_fd (fd, false);

   spec = BCON_NEW ("hello", "world");
   matcher = mongoc_matcher_new (spec, NULL);

   while ((bson = bson_reader_read (reader, NULL))) {
      if (mongoc_matcher_match (matcher, bson)) {
         str = bson_as_json (bson, NULL);
         printf ("%s\n", str);
         bson_free (str);
      }
   }

   bson_reader_destroy (reader);
   bson_destroy (spec);

   return 0;
}

To test this, perform a mongodump of a single collection and pipe it to the program.

$ echo "db.test.insert({hello:'world'})" | mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.1
connecting to: test
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
bye
$ mongodump -d test -c test -o - | filter-bsondump
{ "_id" : { "$oid" : "537afac9a70e5b4d556153bc" }, "hello" : "world" }