NAME BSON - Pure Perl implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization VERSION version 0.16 SYNOPSIS use BSON qw/encode decode/; my $document = { _id => BSON::ObjectId->new, date => BSON::Time->new, name => 'James Bond', age => 45, amount => 24587.45, badass => BSON::Bool->true, password => BSON::String->new('12345') }; my $bson = encode( $document ); my $doc2 = decode( $bson, %options ); DESCRIPTION This module implements BSON serialization and deserialization as described at . BSON is the primary data representation for MongoDB. EXPORT The module does not export anything. You have to request "encode" and/or "decode" manually. use BSON qw/encode decode/; SUBROUTINES encode Takes a hashref and returns a BSON string. my $bson = encode({ bar => 'foo' }); decode Takes a BSON string and returns a hashref. my $hash = decode( $bson, ixhash => 1 ); The options after $bson are optional and they can be any of the following: options 1 ixhash => 1|0 If set to 1 "decode" will return a Tie::IxHash ordered hash. Otherwise, a regular unordered hash will be returned. Turning this option on entails a significant speed penalty as Tie::IxHash is slower than a regular Perl hash. The default value for this option is 0. THREADS This module is thread safe. LIMITATION MongoDB sets a limit for any BSON record to 16MB. This module does not enforce this limit and you can use it to "encode" and "decode" structures as large as you please. CAVEATS BSON uses zero terminated strings and Perl allows the \0 character to be anywhere in a string. If you expect your strings to contain \0 characters, use BSON::Binary instead. HISTORY AND ROADMAP This module was originally written by minimalist. In 2014, he graciously transferred ongoing maintenance to MongoDB, Inc. Going forward, work will focus on restoration of a pure-Perl dependency chain, harmonization with MongoDB driver BSON classes and some API enhancements so this can provide a pure-Perl alternative serializer for the MongoDB driver. SEE ALSO BSON::String, BSON::Time, BSON::ObjectId, BSON::Code, BSON::Binary, BSON::Bool, BSON::MinKey, BSON::MaxKey, BSON::Timestamp, Tie::IxHash, MongoDB SUPPORT Bugs / Feature Requests Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at . You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue. Source Code This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license. git clone https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-perl-bson.git AUTHORS * minimalist * David Golden CONTRIBUTORS * Eric Daniels * Pat Gunn * Yury Zavarin * Oleg Kostyuk COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is Copyright (c) 2015 by minimalist and MongoDB, Inc.. This is free software, licensed under: The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004