We have good support for JSON in java http://blog.locut.us/main/2009/10/14/which-is-the-best-java-json-library.html but what about BSON.
What library do you know that provides BSON support for java? It should obviously be efficient in runtime.
You can use the MongoDB driver for Java to store a BSON object, then convert that to a String
which you can then wrap with JSONObject
.
For example, here's how I'll create a regular document:
BasicDBObject obj = new BasicDBObject();
obj.put("name", "Matt");
obj.put("date", new Date());
Then, to get a String
representation of the object, simply call:
String bsonString = obj.toString();
Wrap it with a JSONObject
and get the date attribute, which should return it in a BSON-compliant format.
JSONObject newObject = new JSONObject(bsonString);
System.out.println(newObject.get("date"));
The resulting output is something like:
{"$date":"2012-08-10T05:22:53.872Z"}