simalpha / matlab-bson

Matlab BSON encoder based on libbson.

Matlab BSON

Matlab BSON encoder based on libbson.

BSON is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON-like doc­u­ments. This package contains API to convert Matlab variables to and from BSON binary. It is useful for exchanging data with Matlab and other programs written in different language.

Build

A UNIX environment is required to build the package. Get necessary tools to build libbson (automake, autoconf, libtool, gcc, make). If you don't have libbson installed in the system, you need the Internet connection. Also mex -setup if you have never used mex command in Matlab.

Once all the requirements are met, type the following in Matlab to build. This will automatically download and compile the libbson package to build the Matlab API.

addpath /path/to/matlab-bson;
bson.make;

Check help bson.make for the detailed instruction.

Example

parrot = struct( ...
  'name', 'Grenny', ...
  'type', 'African Grey', ...
  'male', true, ...
  'age', 1, ...
  'birthdate', {bson.datetime(now)}, ...
  'likes', {{'green color', 'night', 'toys'}}, ...
  'extra1', [] ...
  );
bson_value = bson.encode(parrot);
assert(bson.validate(bson_value));
parrot = bson.decode(bson_value);
disp(bson.asJSON(bson_value));

API

asJSON    Convert BSON to JSON.
datetime  Datetime type in BSON format.
decode    Deserialize value from BSON format.
encode    Serialize value in BSON format.
fromJSON  Convert JSON to BSON.
make      Build a driver mex file.
read      Read bson from file.
validate  Validates BSON format.
write     Write variable to a BSON file.

Check help bson for detail.