BSON_T(3)

NAME
bson_t - BSON Document Abstraction

SYNOPSIS
#include <bson.h>
BSON_ALIGNED_BEGIN (128)
typedef struct
{
   uint32_t flags;         /* Internal flags for the bson_t. */
   uint32_t len;           /* Length of BSON data. */
   uint8_t  padding[120];  /* Padding for stack allocation. */
} bson_t
BSON_ALIGNED_END (128);

DESCRIPTION
The bson_t structure represents a BSON document. This structure manages the underlying BSON encoded buffer. For mutable documents, it can append new data to the document.

PERFORMANCE NOTES
The bson_t structure attepts to use an inline allocation within the structure to speed up performance of small documents. When this internal buffer has been exhausted, a heap allocated buffer will be dynamically allocated. Therefore, it is essential to call bson_destroy() on allocated documents.

EXAMPLE
static void
create_on_heap (void)
{
   bson_t *b = bson_new ();
   BSON_APPEND_INT32 (b, "foo", 123);
   BSON_APPEND_UTF8 (b, "bar", "foo");
   BSON_APPEND_DOUBLE (b, "baz", 1.23f);
   bson_destroy (b);
}

COLOPHON
This page is part of libbson. Please report any bugs at https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER.