bson_reader_t

Streaming BSON Document Reader

Synopsis

#include <bson/bson.h>

typedef struct _bson_reader_t bson_reader_t;

bson_reader_t *
bson_reader_new_from_handle (void *handle,
                             bson_reader_read_func_t rf,
                             bson_reader_destroy_func_t df);
bson_reader_t *
bson_reader_new_from_fd (int fd, bool close_on_destroy);
bson_reader_t *
bson_reader_new_from_file (const char *path, bson_error_t *error);
bson_reader_t *
bson_reader_new_from_data (const uint8_t *data, size_t length);

void
bson_reader_destroy (bson_reader_t *reader);

Description

bson_reader_t is a structure used for reading a sequence of BSON documents. The sequence can come from a file-descriptor, memory region, or custom callbacks.

Functions

• bson_reader_destroy()
• bson_reader_destroy_func_t
• bson_reader_new_from_data()
• bson_reader_new_from_fd()
• bson_reader_new_from_file()
• bson_reader_new_from_handle()
• bson_reader_read()
• bson_reader_read_func_t
• bson_reader_reset()
• bson_reader_set_destroy_func()
• bson_reader_set_read_func()
• bson_reader_tell()

Example

/*
 * Copyright 2013 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.
 */


/*
 * This program will print each BSON document contained in the provided files
 * as a JSON string to STDOUT.
 */


#include <bson/bson.h>
#include <stdio.h>


int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
   bson_reader_t *reader;
   const bson_t *b;
   bson_error_t error;
   const char *filename;
   char *str;
   int i;

   /*
    * Print program usage if no arguments are provided.
    */
   if (argc == 1) {
      fprintf (stderr, "usage: %s [FILE | -]...\nUse - for STDIN.\n", argv[0]);
      return 1;
   }

   /*
    * Process command line arguments expecting each to be a filename.
    */
   for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
      filename = argv[i];

      if (strcmp (filename, "-") == 0) {
         reader = bson_reader_new_from_fd (STDIN_FILENO, false);
      } else {
         if (!(reader = bson_reader_new_from_file (filename, &error))) {
            fprintf (
               stderr, "Failed to open \"%s\": %s\n", filename, error.message);
            continue;
         }
      }

      /*
       * Convert each incoming document to JSON and print to stdout.
       */
      while ((b = bson_reader_read (reader, NULL))) {
         str = bson_as_canonical_extended_json (b, NULL);
         fprintf (stdout, "%s\n", str);
         bson_free (str);
      }

      /*
       * Cleanup after our reader, which closes the file descriptor.
       */
      bson_reader_destroy (reader);
   }

   return 0;
}