birch -- Go Lang BSON Manipulation Package

Overview

The birch package provides an API for manipulating bson in Go programs without needing to handle byte slices or maintain types for marshalling bson into using reflection.

This code is an evolution from an earlier phase of development of the official MongoDB Go Driver's BSON library, but both libraries have diverged. For most application uses the official BSON library is a better choice for interacting with BSON.

The Document type in this library implements bson library's Marhsaler and Unmarshaller interfaces, to support improved interoperation.

API and Documentation

See the godoc API documentation <http://godoc.org/github.com/evergreen-ci/birch> for more information about amboy interfaces and internals.

Development

Please file all issues in the MAKE project in the MongoDB Jira instance.

Future Work

• Benchmarks for lookups and iteration.
• Complete test coverage.
• Improved interfaces to more consistently avoid panics.
• Remove use of byte-constants for bsontype names throughout the package.