mongodb / bson-haskell

Haskell representation and serialization of BSON documents (version 1.0) as defined at bsonspec.org

End of Life Notice

The MongoDB bson-haskell library is now officially end-of-life (EOL). No further development, bugfixes, enhancements, documentation changes or maintenance will be provided by this project and pull requests will no longer be accepted.

About

Haskell library for the BSON encoding. Used in MongoDB. BSON documents are JSON-like objects with a standard binary encoding. A BSON Document is serialized to a standard binary encoding defined at http://bsonspec.org. This implements version 1 of that spec.

A BSON Document is an untyped (dynamically type-checked) record. I.e. it is a list of name-value pairs, where a Value is a single sum type with constructors for basic types (Bool, Int, Float, String, and Time), compound types (List, and (embedded) Document), and special types (Binary, Javascript, ObjectId, RegEx, and a few others).