parsing BSON into JS object

[CheekySp]

possibly newbie question..
Is it right that I can't easily create a Javascript object out of
MongoDB query output?
when I looked at MongoDB for some reason I thought it uses JSON for
network transfers.

Now I found out that it uses BSON which is not exactly the same,
and thus my Javascript client requesting data receives BSON string,
which seemingly cannot be parsed to construct a JS object.

Any hints, anyone?

[Eliot Horowitz]

What javascript environment are you using?
If its in a browser, you should use one of the REST layers, like
https://github.com/kchodorow/sleepy.mongoose

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[CheekySp]

Yes, that's JS in browser (actually a browser extension).
But isn't REST means that queries may be freely defined at clientside?
I obviously wouldn't want client users to have unlimited lookup/insert
functionalities in regards to the DB.

I just want the extension to fetch documents matching some criteria
from the server, keeping the structure, but in the form of the JS
object (so that I can manipulate it using standard JS methods in the
client).

Is it possible?
pardon me if I misunderstood the whole REST thing :)

On 6 ноя, 22:53, Eliot Horowitz <eliothorow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What javascript environment are you using?

> If its in a browser, you should use one of the REST layers, likehttps://github.com/kchodorow/sleepy.mongoose

[Eliot Horowitz]

I think you need to explain what your'e trying to do a bit more.
For example, how are you querying the db?

[CheekySp]

Hi Elliot,
thanks for replying.
I run MongoDB on NodeJS/Express with Mongoose.

I query it using client-side Javascript using XMLHttpRequest call.


server-side code:
"Vendor.find().all(function(results){
results=JSON.stringify(results);
res.send(results);
"

all Vendor documents are found and returned to client-side
XMLHttpRequest, however, it looke like they are in BSON format -
even though I can do JSON.parse on returned data, the field names are
not registered as properties of JS object.

I feel like I've been neglecting my homework ;)
Am I doing something wrong?

Perhaps to get proper JSON I should use Map/Reduce for such
operations?

On 8 ноя, 06:50, Eliot Horowitz <eliothorow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you need to explain what your'e trying to do a bit more.
> For example, how are you querying the db?
>

[Eliot Horowitz]

This is something that mongoose should be doing for you.
You probably need to follow up with them.

[CheekySp]

Since I've been receiving emails from people with the same issue I
thought I'd bump this thread and post a solution:
this wasn't a BSON/JSON issue, but rather, as Elliot suggested, a bug
in Moongoose.
Those affected please check
https://github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose/issues/closed#issue/61