This is a standalone BSON library for C++.

The library is at this time experimental, but if you find it useful, great.

Notes

• The code herein originates as a fork from the MongoDB C++ driver. Anything that isn't simply bson was then eliminated to get a standalone bson implementation. Some things were removed just for simplicity. Other changes have been made along the way too.

• The namespace for the module is _bson. The underscore is present as it is anticipated that one day there will be an official bson driver perhaps, and we don't want to collide with that name-wise.

• In current form the code uses a touch of C++11 things. The main reason for this is simply to have absolutely no outside dependencies; for example in C++11 we have unique_ptr in the standard library, and that is used herein. The C++11 specific code is minimal it would be quite easy to make the library work with older C++ editions.

• Endian-awareness has been added, is preliminary, needs testing.

Notes for those who have used the MongoDB C++ Driver

• bsonobj behaves differently here. The MongoDB driver version has a build in smart pointer implementation. That was removed here; bsonobj herein is simply a "view" on a bson data buffer in memory, and bsonobj itself does no memory management of it. The notion is that this is simpler and you can easily wrap them as needed yourself.

• To avoid confusion as to what implementation is being used, the classes herein use lowercase names, unlike the mongodb c++ driver library.