Automatically converting String to BinData?

[ryancole]

I know Monk is a wrapper around Mongoskin, which itself uses the -native API. I looked through the Monk code and did not see it explicitly doing this conversion, but I figured I'd ask here and work my way down the dependency list.

I have some code that stores a string, returned by one of the node crypto methods, into Mongo. With Monk, and Mongo 2.2.0, this seemed to automatically store that string as BinData in Mongo. Specifically, the string is a user password using the property name password. I guess I assumed that it was automatically being stored using BinData type, by one of the client modules. Today, I have tried out Mongo 2.2.1, and the string is no longer being stored as BinData, but instead is being stored in Mongo as a string.

Anyway, I doubt the conversion was being done based on the contents of the string, but most likely because of the property name being used, password. Either that, or the conversion was somehow being detected and done by MongoDB 2.2.0, and for whatever reason is not longer being done in 2.2.1.

Any ideas on whether or not this was being in Monk, or perhaps Mongoskin / the -native API?

[ryancole]

Actually, you know what? It's Node causing this. The server running Mongo, and Monk, on which the password was being stored of BinData, is running Node 0.9.3. The server on which it's storing it as a string is running Node 0.8.14. In newer versions of Node, it looks like the crypto lib is changing to return buffers instead of strings, which is nice.

Sorry for the ticket!