JSON in mongo shell output

[Dave Brondsema]

Can the mongo shell output valid JSON?  It would be great to be able to copy & paste output.  But nulls and double-quotes aren't handled right. 

> db.foo.insert({quotes:"a\"b",nulls:null})
> db.foo.findOne()
{"_id" : "4a4b7f617e85c2a0ec5cf644" , "quotes" : "a"b" , "nulls" : }

Thanks!

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[Eliot Horowitz]

just fixed those 2 cases at least.
will be in tonight's nightlies and starting in 0.9.6

[A Jesse Jiryu Davis]

Could the shell also output object id's like:

{"_id": ObjectId("4a4b7f617e85c2a0ec5cf644") }

so that input and output are the same format? And could there be an
option in the shell for setting the output timezone to UTC or local?
That would've helped me debug the timezone issues that Michael Dirolf
so helpfully clarified for me (thanks Mike).

Jesse

[Eliot Horowitz]

I changed the ObjectId behavior
Spider monkey doesn't have great time zone support, so the other
request is very difficult.