Design and Planning

[youyuanwu]

This issue is to discuss the planning of the mongo vlang driver.

• Currently the implementation is a wrapper around the mongo-c-driver. Is it the long term solution?
• Are we planning to develop a native vlang driver? Like mongo-go-driver?
• Even if we keep the wrapping the mongo-c-driver, do we want a vlang native bson library? Similar to https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-go-driver/tree/master/bson
• How to handler marshal and unmarshal between bson and vlang struct?

[esquerbatua]

• Currently the implementation is a wrapper around the mongo-c-driver. Is it the long term solution?
  No
• Are we planning to develop a native vlang driver? Like mongo-go-driver?
  I want to do it, but in the future
• Even if we keep the wrapping the mongo-c-driver, do we want a vlang native bson library? Similar to https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-go-driver/tree/master/bson
  As the mongo driver, I want to do it, but in the future
• How to handler marshal and unmarshal between bson and vlang struct?
  No idea by the moment

[youyuanwu]

There should be a private v wrap functionality that has not yet been released yet. Once it is available, all the wrapping of C code should be generated rather than manually implemented. If you @esquerbatua can get the wrapping now from the vlang maintainer, you can speed up the c wrapping dev process.
Note that libsodium wrapper is auto generated: https://github.com/vlang/libsodium

[esquerbatua]

There are a pending PR with more functions, and a WIP branch with native bson

[youyuanwu]

I saw it, but I recommend generating all the C bindings. There are a lot more bindings in the c-driver's header file.

[hubyhuby]

Hello,
Any news update on the planning of the mongo feature ?
It would be nice to have example (tests) and installation procedure.
Really looking forward to be able to access mongodb within a V program.
For now I have not been unable to run the Mongodb example.

[esquerbatua]

Hi @hubyhuby I'm waiting to have a more stable version of V, with submodules working as expected to have a large organization since the first release.

[esquerbatua]

Hi @hubyhuby you have now more examples and installation process.