1BSON::Bytes(3)        User Contributed Perl Documentation       BSON::Bytes(3)
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NAME

6       BSON::Bytes - BSON type wrapper for binary byte strings
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VERSION

9       version v1.12.2
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SYNOPSIS

12           use BSON::Types ':all';
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14           $bytes = bson_bytes( $bytestring );
15           $bytes = bson_bytes( $bytestring, $subtype );
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DESCRIPTION

18       This module provides a BSON type wrapper for binary data represented as
19       a string of bytes.
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ATTRIBUTES

22   data
23       A scalar, interpreted as bytes.  (I.e. "character" data should be
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27       A numeric BSON subtype between 0 and 255.  This defaults to 0 and
28       generally should not be modified.  Subtypes 128 to 255 are "user-
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METHODS

32   TO_JSON
33       Returns Base64 encoded string equivalent to the data attribute.
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35       If the "BSON_EXTJSON" option is true, it will instead be compatible
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37       <https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/blob/master/source/extended-
38       json.rst> format, which represents it as a document as follows:
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OVERLOADING

43       The stringification operator ("") is overloaded to return the binary
44       data and fallback overloading is enabled.
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AUTHORS

47       •   David Golden <david@mongodb.com>
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49       •   Stefan G. <minimalist@lavabit.com>
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52       This software is Copyright (c) 2020 by Stefan G. and MongoDB, Inc.
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54       This is free software, licensed under:
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56         The Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004
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60perl v5.34.0                      2022-01-20                    BSON::Bytes(3)
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