BSON_APPEND_VALUE(3)

NAME
bson_append_value()

SYNOPSIS
bool
bson_append_value (bson_t             *bson,
                   const char         *key,
                   int                 key_length,
                   const bson_value_t *value);

PARAMETERS

bson
    A bson_t .

key An ASCII C string containing the name of the field.

key_length
    The length of key in bytes, or -1 to determine the length with strlen() .

value
    A bson_value_t .

DESCRIPTION
Appends a new field to bson by determining the boxed type in value . This is useful if you want to copy fields between documents but do not know the field type until runtime.

RETURNS
true if the operation was applied successfully, otherwise false and bson should be discarded.

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