NAME

       MongoDB::BSON - Tools for serializing and deserializing data in BSON form

VERSION

       version 0.702.1

NAME

       MongoDB::BSON - Encoding and decoding utilities (more to come)

ATTRIBUTES

   "looks_like_number"
           $MongoDB::BSON::looks_like_number = 1;
           $collection->insert({age => "4"}); # stores 4 as an int

       If this is set, the driver will be more aggressive about converting strings into numbers.
       Anything that Scalar::Util's looks_like_number would approve as a number will be sent to
       MongoDB as its numeric value.

       Defaults to 0 (for backwards compatibility).

       If you do not set this, you may be using strings more often than you intend to.  See the
       MongoDB::DataTypes section for more info on the behavior of strings vs. numbers.

   char
           $MongoDB::BSON::char = ":";
           $collection->query({"x" => {":gt" => 4}});

       Can be used to set a character other than "$" to use for special operators.

   Turn on/off UTF8 flag when return strings
           # turn off utf8 flag on strings
           $MongoDB::BSON::utf8_flag_on = 0;

       Default is turn on, that compatible with version before 0.34.

       If set to 0, will turn of utf8 flag on string attribute and return on bytes mode, meant
       same as :

           utf8::encode($str)

       Currently MongoDB return string with utf8 flag, on character mode , some people wish to
       turn off utf8 flag and return string on byte mode, it maybe help to display "pretty"
       strings.

       NOTE:

       If you turn off utf8 flag, the string  length will compute as bytes, and is_utf8 will
       return false.

   Return boolean values as booleans instead of integers
           $MongoDB::BSON::use_boolean = 1

       By default, booleans are deserialized as integers.  If you would like them to be
       deserialized as "true" in boolean and "false" in boolean, set $MongoDB::BSON::use_boolean
       to 1.

   Return binary data as instances of MongoDB::BSON::Binary instead of string refs.
           $MongoDB::BSON::use_binary = 1

       For backwards compatibility, binary data is deserialized as a string ref.  If you would
       like to have it deserialized as instances of MongoDB::BSON::Binary (to, say, preserve the
       subtype), set $MongoDB::BSON::use_binary to 1.

AUTHORS

       •   Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

       •   Kristina Chodorow <kristina@mongodb.org>

       •   Mike Friedman <mike.friedman@10gen.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by 10gen, Inc..

       This is free software, licensed under:

         The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004