Mongoimport of json file

Question

I have a json file consisting of about 2000 records. Each record which will correspond to a document in the mongo database is formatted as follows:

{jobID:"2597401",
account:"XXXXX",
user:"YYYYY",
pkgT:{"pgi/7.2-5":{libA:["libpgc.so"],flavor:["default"]}},     
startEpoch:"1338497979",
runTime:"1022",
execType:"user:binary",
exec:"/share/home/01482/XXXXX/appker/ranger/NPB3.3.1/NPB3.3-MPI/bin/ft.D.64",
numNodes:"4",
sha1:"5a79879235aa31b6a46e73b43879428e2a175db5",
execEpoch:1336766742,
execModify: new Date("Fri May 11 15:05:42 2012"),
startTime: new Date("Thu May 31 15:59:39 2012"),
numCores:"64",
sizeT:{bss:"1881400168",text:"239574",data:"22504"}},

Each record is on a single line in the JSON file, and the only line breaks are at the end of every record. Therefore, each line in the document starts with "{jobID:"... I am trying to import these into a mongo database using the following command:

mongoimport --db dbName --collection collectionName --file fileName.json

However, I get the following error:

Sat Mar  2 01:26:12 Assertion: 10340:Failure parsing JSON string near: ,execModif
0x10059f12b 0x100562d5c 0x100562e9c 0x10025eb98 0x10000e643 0x100010b60 0x10055c4cc 0x1000014b7    
0x100001454 
 0   mongoimport                         0x000000010059f12b _ZN5mongo15printStackTraceERSo + 43
 1   mongoimport                         0x0000000100562d5c _ZN5mongo11msgassertedEiPKc + 204
 2   mongoimport                         0x0000000100562e9c _ZN5mongo11msgassertedEiRKSs + 12
 3   mongoimport                         0x000000010025eb98 _ZN5mongo8fromjsonEPKcPi + 1576
 4   mongoimport                         0x000000010000e643          
                                         _ZN6Import8parseRowEPSiRN5mongo7BSONObjERi + 2739
 5   mongoimport                         0x0000000100010b60 _ZN6Import3runEv + 7376
 6   mongoimport                         0x000000010055c4cc _ZN5mongo4Tool4mainEiPPc + 5436
 7   mongoimport                         0x00000001000014b7 main + 55
 8   mongoimport                         0x0000000100001454 start + 52
Sat Mar  2 01:26:12 exception:BSON representation of supplied JSON is too large: Failure parsing    
    JSON string near: ,execModif
Sat Mar  2 01:26:12 
Sat Mar  2 01:26:12 imported 0 objects
Sat Mar  2 01:26:12 ERROR: encountered 1941 errors

I do not know what the problem is. Can someone recommend a solution?

Answer 1

I was able to fix the error using the following query:

mongoimport --db dbName --collection collectionName --file fileName.json --jsonArray

Hopefully this is helpful to someone.