[ANN] bson-objectid - Decoupled ObjectID

[William Wicks]

Imagine the predicament: You start with a Mongo collection and then realizing it is better to persist it in a different datastore- but you can't just ditch your Primary Key datatype!

Here at Tinder we like to decouple things. In building our internal distributed architecture, we wanted to remove references to the `mongodb` module where we were not making any mongo connections. We needed to generate/validate/parse `ObjectID`s without to the `mongodb` module... ok, actually the `bson` module that `mongodb` uses. Using the `bson` module is a step in the right direction- but still... Why is it in there anyhow? ObjectId's definition isn't part of the BSON spec... actually, it seems to be (officially?) defined in the MongoDB API reference: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/object-id/

(CMIIW plz)

A peek around the internet yielded some modules- but they didn't match the API of the Mongo/BSON modules.... and often browser focused. Maybe there is one out there that I just couldn't find.

So, now we use: https://www.npmjs.org/package/bson-objectid

It is compatible with the `bson` module's public API and works with queries to `mongodb` module.

Feedback and contributions welcome!

Cheers,

-William