bson_as_json()

Synopsis

char *
bson_as_json (const bson_t *bson,
              size_t       *length);

Parameters

bson

A bson_t.

length

An optional location for the length of the resulting string.

Description

The bson_as_json() function shall encode bson as a JSON encoded UTF-8 string.

The caller is responsible for freeing the resulting UTF-8 encoded string by calling bson_free() with the result.

If non-NULL, length will be set to the length of the result in bytes.

Returns

If successful, a newly allocated UTF-8 encoded string and length is set.

Upon failure, NULL is returned.

Example

bson_as_json

char *str = bson_as_json (doc, NULL);
printf ("%s\n", str);
bson_free (str);