JSON serializing Mongodb

Question

I am using the python package pymongo to retrieve data from a mongodb database.

>>> r = collection.find()   # returns an object of class \'Cursor\'
         


        

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue, I wrote a code that converts document to dictionary. You can use that for reference. Pass the object obtained by find_one() into documentToJson() method and the results of find() into convertDocumentsToJson. There is type in the name Json, instead the code converts to Dict rather than json.

from bson.json_util import dumps

class UtilService:

def __init__(self):
    pass

@staticmethod
def pinCodeParser(path):
    location = {}
    f = open(path)
    for line in f:
        words = line.split()
        location[words[1]] = (words[-3],words[-2])
    return location

@staticmethod
def listHelper(str):
    s = []
    str = str.split(',')
    for e in str:
        s.append(e.replace("[","").replace("]",""))
    return s

@staticmethod
def parseList(str):
    if ',' in str:
        return UtilService.listHelper(str)
    return str

@staticmethod
def trimStr(str):
    return str.replace('"','')

@staticmethod
def documentToJson(document):
    document = eval(dumps(document))
    mp = {}
    for key, value in document.iteritems():
        if "_id" in key:
            mp["id"] = str(value["$oid"])
        else:
            mp[ UtilService.trimStr(key) ] = UtilService.parseList( value )
    return mp

@staticmethod
def convertDocumentsToJson(documents):
    result = []
    for document in documents:
        result.append(UtilService.documentToJson(document))
    return result