ardubson

Lightweight BSON (Binary JSON) Library for Arduino

Getting started

Please check the examples folder for detailed explanations

Supported BSON types:

• string
• int (int values will be converted to int32)
• boolean
• double (floats and doubles are the same in Arduino)

Default values

• string: "NaS"
• int: 0
• bool: false
• float: 0.0

Classes

• BSONObjBuilder
• BSONObject
• BSONElement
• BSONStreamParser

BSONObjBuilder Class

The intention of this class is to provide a builder object to create BSON objects, once you have appended data to the builder you can get the BSON Object from it.

BSONObjBuilder Example: Build the equivalent BSON object of the following JSON:

{"hello": "world"} 

Note: For full example please check the file located on "/examples/BSONObjBuilder"

You need to create a BSON builder and append a string called "hello" with value "world":

// Create a BSON Builder
BSONObjBuilder bob;
// Append an element to BSON Builder
bob.append("hello", "world");
// Generate BSON Object
BSONObject bo = bob.obj();

At this point you will have generated a BSON encoded message like this:

\x16\x00\x00\x00                             // total document size
\x02                                         // 0x02 = type String
\x68\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f\x00                     // field name
\x06\x00\x00\x00\x77\x6f\x72\x6c\x64\x00     // field value
\x00                                         // 0x00 = type EOO ('end of object')

Once you have obtained a BSON Object from the builder you can access to binary encoded using the "rawData()" method, NOTE: The method "len()" is useful to retrieve only the encoded part of the BSON object buffer.

char* data = bo.rawData();
int len = bo.len();
sendDataToValhalla(data, len)

BSONObject Class

This class is used to encode and decode BSON data, can be created using an BSONObjBuilder or constructed using encoded raw data in BSON format.

BSONObject Example: Build a BSON Object using BSON encoded raw data.

Note: For full example please check the files located on "/examples/BSONObject" and "/examples/jsonString"

// BSON encoded char array
char bsonRawData[] = {
  0x16, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,         // Data length
  0x02,                           // Data type
  'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 0x00,  // Field name
  0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,         // String value length (including null terminator)
  'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', 0x00,  // String value
  0x00                            // EOO
};

// Create BSON Object using raw data
BSONObject bo(bsonRawData);

// Get BSON Object element
BSONElement be = bo.getField("hello");
Serial.print("BSON Element data value: ");
Serial.println(be.getString());
// Print BSON element in JSON format
Serial.print("BSON Object in JSON format: ");
Serial.println(bo.jsonString());

The above example should print:

BSON Element data value: world
BSON in JSON format: {"hello": "world"}