cookjson-utils

cookjson-utils currently contains two command line utilities.

convertjson

convertjson converts from a JSON format to a target format. It recognizes file types by extension.

  • .json is JSON format.
  • .bson is BSON format.

If the output format is BSON, the length information for Document / Array are correctly generated as well so it can be safely dumped by bsondump.

Syntax

usage: convertjson [options]
  -a,--array         treat BSON root document as array.
  -d,--double        use double for BSON to store BigDecimal / BigInteger.
  -f,--from <file>   from file
  -h,--help          print this message.
  -n,--nofix         disable fixing of BSON lengths.
  -p,--pretty        pretty output for JSON format.
  -t,--to <file>     to file
  -x,--hex           use hexadecimal instead of base64 to represent binary
                     data.

Examples

  • Converting from JSON to BSON
convertjson -f mydata.json -t mydata.bson
  • Converting from BSON to JSON
convertjson -f mydata.bson -t mydata.json
  • Converting from BSON to JSON, treating the root of BSON as an array
convertjson -f mydata.bson -t mydata.json -a

fixbson

This utility basically calculates and updates the length information for Document and Array types in a BSON document.

Syntax

usage: fixbson [options] [file]
  -h,--help   print this message.