yulefox / lua-bson

A BSON library for lua

Introduction

This is a simple BSON library for Lua.

Building

make win

or

make linux

Types

Lua Type	BSON Type	Notes
bson.null	Null
boolean	Boolean
number	Double
number	32-bit integer
number	64-bit integer	precision lost
string	String
table	BSON Document
table	BSON Array	Lua table must be a sequence. (Continuous number key base 1)
bson.date(os.time())	UTC Datetime	milliseconds since epoch
bson.timestamp(os.time())	Timestamp	special mongodb type, two 32-bit number
bson.regex(regex,option)	Regular Expression
bson.objectid()	ObjectID	MongoDB document ID
bson.minkey	Min Key
bson.maxkey	Max Key

Replace field

These bson types (fixed length) below can be replace by new value after encode to bson object.

• int32
• int64
• double
• boolean
• date
• timestamp
• objectid

You need call makeindex() before replace.

Getting started

See test.lua