bson_as_json (3) Linux Manual Page
bson_as_json() – The bson_as_json() function shall encode bson as a JSON encoded UTF-8 string.
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\n", str);
bson_free (str);