MongoDB::BSON(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					MongoDB::BSON(3pm)

NAME

       MongoDB::BSON - Encoding and decoding utilities (more to come)

ATTRIBUTES

   "looks_like_number"
	   $MongoDB::BSON::looks_like_number = 1;
	   $collection->insert({age => "4"}); # stores 4 as an int

       If this is set, the driver will be more aggressive about converting strings into numbers.  Anything that Scalar::Util's looks_like_number
       would approve as a number will be sent to MongoDB as its numeric value.

       Defaults to 0 (for backwards compatibility).

       If you do not set this, you may be using strings more often than you intend to.	See the MongoDB::DataTypes section for more info on the
       behavior of strings vs. numbers.

   char
	   $MongoDB::BSON::char = ":";
	   $collection->query({"x" => {":gt" => 4}});

       Can be used to set a character other than "$" to use for special operators.

   Turn on/off UTF8 flag when return strings
	   # turn off utf8 flag on strings
	   $MongoDB::BSON::utf8_flag_on = 0;

       Default is turn on, that compatible with version before 0.34.

       If set to 0, will turn of utf8 flag on string attribute and return on bytes mode, meant same as :

	   utf8::encode($str)

       Currently MongoDB return string with utf8 flag, on character mode , some people wish to turn off utf8 flag and return string on byte mode,
       it maybe help to display "pretty" strings.

       NOTE:

       If you turn off utf8 flag, the string  length will compute as bytes, and is_utf8 will return false.

   Return boolean values as booleans instead of integers
	   $MongoDB::BSON::use_boolean = 1

       By default, booleans are deserialized as integers.  If you would like them to be deserialized as "true" in boolean and "false" in boolean,
       set $MongoDB::BSON::use_boolean to 1.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-09-07							MongoDB::BSON(3pm)