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[Tom Worster <fsb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

BSON works for me so long as Maria is happy to pass BSON texts as strings.

When I was reading the BSON spec I just had to laugh. Douglas Crockford
often talk about a bug he made in JSON reference library:
* http://youtu.be/bo36MrBfTk4?t=38m2s
And BSON start's its specification with:

> document ::= int32 e_list "\x00"
> 
> Just wonderful!
> 
> 
> From:  Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:  Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:31 PM
> To:  Roberto Spadim <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:  Federico Razzoli <federico_raz@xxxxxxxx>, Tom Worster <fsb@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> maria-discuss email list <maria-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  Re: [Maria-discuss] Restated: JSON cannot represent binary data
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I suggest creating an MDEV spec for COLUMN_BSON() to return BSON data which
> can handle binary (MongoDB uses it to store binary data).  In the same MDEV,
> COLUMN_JSON should be modified to omit binary columns and return a warning to
> use COLUMN_BSON for a complete representation of the data.
> 
> Does that sound reasonable?
> 
> --Justin
> 
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Roberto Spadim <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> the warning is not for null, the warning is for column_json return not strict
>> to json specs
> 
>