BSON_AS_JSON(3)

NAME
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(3) 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(3) 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
char *str = bson_as_json (doc, NULL);
printf ("%s, str);
bson_free (str);

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