Dump Mongo Collection into JSON format

Question

Is there any way to dump mongo collection into json format? Either on the shell or using java driver.I am looking for the one with best performance.

Answer 1

From the Mongo documentation:

The mongoexport utility takes a collection and exports to either JSON or CSV. You can specify a filter for the query, or a list of fields to output

Read more here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/mongoexport