UUID Support for BSON Serialization in Mongo Go Driver

Motivation

While working with a legacy system we are indexing a fairly large amount of data into a time series collection where the IDs are UUID types. Our first instinct was to use strings as they are easier to work around with the go drivers for MongoDB, but we can cut our index sizes considerably using the binary representation. Thus, bson-uuid was born.

Installation

go get -u github.com/vonix-networks/bsonuuid

Deployment

There is a builder for a quick replacement if this is the only change to the registry needed:

client, err := mongo.Connect(context.Background(),
    options.Client().ApplyURI("uri"),
    options.Client().SetRegistry(bsonuuid.BuildRegistry()))

This will enable serialization from and to the standard UUID MongoDB type (specifically the binary subtype 0x04). It will also attempt to automatically parse strings.

Change History

• v0.1.0 - Initial release
• v0.1.1 - Fixed module cache issues