Overview - Writing Drivers and Tools

This section contains information for developers that are working with the low-level protocols of Mongo - people who are writing drivers and higher-level tools.

Documents of particular interest :

BSON http://bsonspec.org Description of the BSON binary document format. Fundamental to how Mongo and it's client software works.
Mongo Wire Protocol Specification for the basic socket communications protocol used between Mongo and clients.
Mongo Driver Requirements Description of what functionality is expected from a Mongo Driver
GridFS Specification Specification of GridFS - a convention for storing large objects in Mongo
Mongo Extended JSON Description of the extended JSON protocol for the REST-ful interface (ongoing development)

Additionally we recommend driver authors take a look at existing driver source code as an example.


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