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goliardico
goliardico

Reputation: 85

How do I convert a JavaScript object to a MongoDB BSON object?

I have the following Javascript object, how can I convert it to BSON for insert in MongoDB (and transform those date string in ISODate)?

{ name: 'Event 4',
  personsMax: 2,
  begin: '2014-09-22T19:00:20.000Z',
  end: '2014-09-22T21:00:20.000Z',
  creator: 'Jack',
  created: '2014-09-22T14:52:20.517Z',
  refDate: '2014-10-08T00:00:00.000Z',
  whoIsIn: { jack: true },
 id: 4 }

I'm using nod.js + node-mongodb-native client.

After db.insert in mongodb I have:

db.test.find();

{ "name" : "Event 4", "personsMax" : 2, "begin" : "2014-09-22T19:00:20.000Z", 
"end" : "2014-09-22T21:00:20.000Z", "creator" : "Jack", 
"created" : "2014-09-22T14:52:20.517Z", "refDate" : "2014-10-08T00:00:00.000Z", 
"whoIsIn" : { "jack" : true }, "id" : 4, "_id" : ObjectId("542038e4a3fbfcf81bace0d7") }

I suspect those "begin", "end", "created", "refDate" fields was inserted as String, not Date (or ISODate).

I'm wrong?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2808

Answers (1)

Lix
Lix

Reputation: 47956

You don't need to convert anything to BSON. Mongo handles this for you. Mongo only uses BSON to store it's data internally - you interface with it using JSON and your library code (in your case node-mongodb-native).

With regard to the date objects - you can create them as normal JavaScript Date objects - again, mongo will handle these and convert them as needed during the insertion process.

Upvotes: 3

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