jeremyot / objectivebson

A BSON serialization library for Objective-C

ObjectiveBSON

A small library that provides BSON serialization methods for Mac or iOS applications.

Usage

Copy BSONSerialization.h and BSONSerialization.m to your project.

Calling [NSData BSONValue] on an NSData object containing BSON data returns an NSDictionary with the deserialized BSON data.

Calling [NSDictionary BSONRepresentation] returns an NSData with the serialized BSON data.

Alternatively, [NSDictionary dictionaryFromBSONBytes:(char*)] may be used if you only have access to a char[] containing the BSON data.

objectivebson's Issues

Incorrect return value for +arrayWithBSON:

The header states +(NSDictionary_)arrayWithBSON:(NSData_)bsonData, but it should be +(NSArray*)array...

No license

Would like to trial this in an iOS project. Can you provide license details ?

Odd behavior with blank strings

I am parsing a BSON message to an NSDictionary. The BSON has an array like this:

{
Data = "some data"; // all strings are String (not CString)
Name = "my name";
Things = ( "thing1", "thing2" ); // an array of Strings
},{
Data = "more data";
Name = "another name";
Things = ( "thing3", "thing4" );
}

This works fine converting the BSON to NSDictionary. But when Name is an empty string (not nil—I know that breaks NSDictionary), the "Things" array that comes after it in the BSON structure doesn't get added to the dictionary:

{
Data = "more data";
Name = "";
}

Though the array IS in the BSON. Just changing the Name field to be a space (if it would otherwise be empty) makes the Things array show up again in the output NSDictionary.

Also, if I change the order of the elements so that Things comes before Name, then Things is retained even when Name is an empty string. So order counts here.

Doesn't support iPadRetina 64-bit targets

Will this project be updated to support newer iPad models?
EDIT: The fault was mine. Not an issue.

how should I use this with mongodb c driver?

how should a convert between mongodb c driver's bson and NSData? Thanks.