Inserting a JSON string (as opposed to DBObject) from Java

[wfc]

Hi

I am using the Java API to work with Mongo. I have a case where I
receive JSON as a Java string (it is already a valis JSON string), and
want to know if it is possible to just insert the string into a
collection, without having to map it to a BasicDBObject first? I have
looked around the API and didn't find anything that indicated such
usage.

Many thanks

Willie

[Eliot Horowitz]

There is no method righ now. We should add one to com.mongodb.util.JSON.

[wfc]

Hi

Thanks for the reply

Would one create a method that first transforms the JSON string into a
DBObject, or is there (an existing) lower level Mongo method/utility
that one can use that already knows how to interpret JSON string (to
skip the transformation step) - for example, something that is
currently perhaps used in the jsonimport code? (I haven't gone and
looked at the jsonimport code yet)

On Apr 6, 3:33 pm, Eliot Horowitz <eliothorow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no method righ now. We should add one to com.mongodb.util.JSON.
>

[Eliot]

You would call JSON.parse() first, then save it to the DB.

The jsonimport code parses the json in the c++ client.

[Kristina Chodorow]

I've added JSON.parse() to the Java driver, so if you pull from http://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver/tree/master, you should be able to use it.

For example:

import com.mongodb.util.JSON;
/* ... */
DBObject obj = JSON.parse("{\"json\" : \"string\"}");