char *
Contents
Copyright
2009-present, MongoDB, Inc.
1.30.4 Jun 08, 2025 BSON_AS_LEGACY_EXTENDED_JSON(3)
Description
bson_as_legacy_extended_json() encodes bson as a UTF-8 string using libbson'sLegacyExtendedJSON. This
function is superseded by bson_as_canonical_extended_json() and bson_as_relaxed_extended_json(), which
use the same MongoDBExtendedJSONformat as all other MongoDB drivers.
The caller is responsible for freeing the resulting UTF-8 encoded string by calling bson_free() with the
result.
If non-NULL, length will be set to the length of the result in bytes.
Example
bson_t *b = BCON_NEW ("foo", BCON_INT32 (123));
char *str = bson_as_legacy_extended_json (b, NULL);
printf ("Legacy Extended JSON: %s\n", str);
// Prints:
// Legacy Extended JSON: { "foo" : 123 }
bson_free (str);
bson_destroy (b);
Parameters
• bson: A bson_t.
• length: An optional location for the length of the resulting string.
Returns
If successful, a newly allocated UTF-8 encoded string and length is set.
Upon failure, NULL is returned.
Synopsis
char *
bson_as_legacy_extended_json (const bson_t *bson, size_t *length)
