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bsoncxx::to_json return corrupted string

I'm having difficulties converting a bson document to a json string using bsoncxx. The bsoncxx::to_json function return an "invalid"/corrupted std::string object.. I can't read the character in it, and it crash when the std::string is destructed..

I've rebuild everything: mongoc,libbson, mongocxx, etc...

Here's a sample code :

bsoncxx::builder::basic::document doc{};
doc.append(bsoncxx::builder::basic::kvp("test", 1));
auto string = bsoncxx::to_json(doc);

I can't extract the data from the string, because std::end(string) crash with a "read access violation" when I try to copy the content with std::copy...

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I'm using mongodb everywhere in the program and accessing bson documents and everything works fine. I tried to call bsoncxx::to_json on an already existing bson document returned by a mongodb query but it had the same behavior...

I'm trying to stream a byte array ( plus, some information like how to decode the byte array ) using boost tcp sockets to a nodejs program so I thought I could simply create a document with a "binary field", convert it to json and stream it over the tcp socket...

Anyone knows how I could do that, either by fixing the bsoncxx::to_json, or by using something else ?

thanks

Edit:

For information, I'm compiling with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 x64

Solution

  • I fixed the problem by using libbson directly, instead of bsoncxx... I took at look a the code in bsoncxx::to_json, and extracted that :

    std::string ret;

bson_t bson;
auto view = document.view();
bson_init_static(&bson, view.data(), view.length());

size_t size;
auto result = bson_as_json(&bson, &size);
if (!result)
    return "Error converting to json";

ret = std::string(result);

bson_free(result);

return std::move(ret);

    Seems to work fine!