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karthick
karthick

Reputation: 6158

How to construct and pass bson document - Go lang?

I am using Go and mongoDB in my project and mgo is to connect to connect MongoDB.

I am having following document this is to be inserted in the MongoDB

 {
     "_id" : ObjectId("53439d6b89e4d7ca240668e5"),
     "balanceamount" : 3,
     "type" : "reg",
     "authentication" : {
       "authmode" : "10",
       "authval" : "sd",
       "recovery" : {
          "mobile" : "sdfsd",
          "email" : "[email protected]"
        }
      },
     "stamps" : {
        "in" : "x",
        "up" : "y"
     }
  }

I have created the BSON document as above.

I have two packages

  1. account.go

  2. dbEngine.go

account.go is used to create BSON document and send the BSON document to dbEngine.go

dbEngine.go is used to establish connection to MongoDB and insert the document. while passing BSON document to dbEngine.go

dbEngine.Insert(bsonDocument);

In dbEngine.go i am having method 

func Insert(document interface{}){
 //stuff
}

Error : panic: Can't marshal interface {} as a BSON document.

Whether interface{} is not to be used for BSON document.

I am new to Go. Any suggestion or help will be grateful

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5041

Answers (2)

James Henstridge
James Henstridge

Reputation: 43899

The mgo driver uses the labix.org/v2/mgo/bson package to handle BSON encoding/decoding. For the most part, this package is modelled after the standard library encoding/json package.

So you can use structs and arrays to represent objects. For example,

type Document struct {
    Id bson.ObjectId `bson:"_id"`
    BalanceAmount int `bson:"balanceamount"`
    Type string `bson:"type"`
    Authentication Authentication `bson:"authentication"`
    Stamps Stamps `bson:"stamps"`
}
type Authentication struct {
    ...
}
type Stamps struct {
    ...
}

You can now create values of this type to pass to mgo.

Upvotes: 2

nvcnvn
nvcnvn

Reputation: 5175

You don't need to generate a BSON document yourself.
Let say in account.go you will have an account struct: 

type Account struct {
  Id bson.ObjectId `bson:"_id"` // import "labix.org/v2/mgo/bson"
  BalanceAmount int
  // Other field
}

Then in dbEngine.go your Insert function:

func Insert(document interface{}){
  session, err := mgo.Dial("localhost")
  // check error
  c := session.DB("db_name").C("collection_name")
  err := c.Insert(document)
}

And then, some where in your app:

acc := Account{}
acc.Id = bson.NewObjectId()
acc.BalanceAmount = 3

dbEngine.Insert(&acc);

Upvotes: 2

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