libbson - API
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A Cross Platform BSON Library for C

This site documents the API. For tutorials, guides, and explainers, see `MongoDB C Driver <mongodb_docs_cdriver_>`_.

Introduction
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libbson builds, parses, and iterates `BSON <http://bsonspec.org>`_ documents, the native data format of MongoDB. It also converts BSON to and from JSON, and provides a platform compatibility layer for `the MongoDB C Driver <https://www.mongoc.org/>`_.


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