bson_append_symbol(3) Appends a new field to bson of type BSON_TYPE_SYMBOL. This BSON type is deprecated and should not be used in new code.

SYNOPSIS


bool
bson_append_symbol (bson_t *bson,
const char *key,
int key_length,
const char *value,
int length);

PARAMETERS

bson
A bson_t \&.

key
An ASCII C string containing the name of the field.

key_length
The length of key in bytes, or -1 to determine the length with strlen(3) \&.

value
The symbol.

length
A length of symbol in bytes, or -1 to determine the length with strlen(3) \&.

DESCRIPTION

Appends a new field to bson of type BSON_TYPE_SYMBOL. This BSON type is deprecated and should not be used in new code.

RETURNS

true if the operation was applied successfully, otherwise false and bson should be discarded.

COLOPHON

This page is part of libbson. Please report any bugs at https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER.