BSON_OID_INIT_FROM_STRING(3)

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version 2.5.6 · 16 versions
, in epel 10

💅 BSON_OID_INIT_FROM_STRING 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to BSON_OID_INIT_FROM_STRING(3) — that's the section 3 page from the libbson manual, and honestly? it's a little one-trick pony but she eats every time 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void
bson_oid_init_from_string (bson_oid_t *oid, const char *str);

that's the whole thing. void return, two args, no drama. lowkey iconic for that reason alone 💀

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

  • oid: a bson_oid_t. yeah. that's the vibe. it's the thing getting filled in 🌸
  • str: a string containing a hex encoded version of the oid 🔥 that's the raw material, the source text, the main character of this whole function

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what she does is: parses that string — the one holding the hex encoded oid — and then initializes the bytes in oid from it. that's literally it, no cap. input goes in, oid bytes come out, everybody claps 👑

⭐ EXAMPLE ⭐

bson_oid_init_from_string (&oid, "012345678901234567890123");

look at that. a perfectly good little hex string going straight into &oid. she slayed ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

MongoDB, Inc — yeah, the whole company. tag yourself, i'm the entire corporation 💜

2009-present, MongoDB, Inc. — respectfully, they've been at this a while and it shows 🎀

fr fr that's the entire page, no hidden lore, no weird edge cases documented, no see-also list. what you see is what you get, and what you get is a hex string parser. periodt 💅

anyway ily, go initialize some oids — this was libbson 2.5.6, dated Oct 09, 2026, and that's the whole sign-off bestie 🦋💖

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