tedsparc

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# This script acts as a command-line filter to convert a BSON file (such as from mongodump) to an equivalent JSON file
# The resulting JSON file will be an array of hashes
# Any binary values from the BSON file are converted to base64 (such as Mongo's _id fields)
# I originally wrote this script so that Mongo files can be easily used with jsawk for
# offline data processing -- https://github.com/micha/jsawk
#
# To invoke, assuming mycollection.bson is a file from mongodump:
#   ruby bson2json.rb  < mycollection.bson > mycollection.json