1. Download mongo-c-driver from https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/
2. Follow instructions from mongo-c-driver/README to build and install mongo-c-driver
3. Don't forget to run sudo ldconfig after mongo-c-driver was installed

--import ljffi-mongo driver
local mongo = import 'ljffi-mongo/mongo' ()
--Connect to server
local con = mongo.connect("localhost", 27017)
local id = con:insert("ljffi-mongo.mycoll", {foo='bar'})

For more examples see test/cases/0020-mongo.lua

ljffi-mongo supports transparent serialization/deserialization of Lua tables to BSON and BSON to Lua tables. This serialization is possible with certain restrictions:

A table could be serialized to MongoDB document iff:

• All table keys must be either string, number, or boolean. Using other types as table key will cause an error.
• All table values must be either string, number, boolean, nil, or table. Using other types of values will cause an error.
• All nested tables should match to restrictions #1 and #2
• Recursive tables are not supported.

Serialization rules are:

• Empty tables will be serialized to empty documents
• nil will be serialized to null

A MongoDB document could be deserialized using following rules:

• Numbers of any type, integer, long, or double, will be deserialized to Lua number. Type information will be lost for this values.
• Boolean values will be deserialized to Lua boolean
• String values will be deserialized to Lua string
• Null values will be deserialized to Lua nil
• Arrays will be deserialized to Lua table
• Objects will be deserialized to Lua table
• Dates and timestamps will be deserialized to Lua number
• ObjectID will be Arrays will be deserialized to Lua string

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See the copyright information in the file named COPYRIGHT.

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