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.
PLEASE POST QUESTIONS IN THE FORUMS: http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user. Post tips and clarifications here.
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