Accessing Driver Helpers

[Kaffiend]

What is the recommended way to access and utilize helpers such as NumberDecimal for monetary fields? But more importantly will the V8 branch update to mongo 3.4 peer dependency to have such helpers new in that version?

[notheotherben]

Hi Ian,

I haven't yet looked into the helpers, however I will do so and get back to you (with the client library update as well). I suspect the easiest solution will be using a transform, but let me confirm.

[Kaffiend]

Benjamin,
I may have misread documentation, the example i gave is for the shell. It appears the best way is still Exact Precision for monetary values.

[notheotherben]

I've just gone through the process of updating the client libraries and exposing some additional helper methods in the form of toDecimal128 and toLong which should enable you to more easily make use of the underlying BSON datatypes (as one would with ObjectID) for these kinds of things.

This is all published and available in 8.0.0-alpha.5 if you'd like to try it out, however as you mentioned, there are a number of solutions which work well to avoid the need for them in the first place.

Regards,
Benjamin

[Kaffiend]

I will give it a shot, Thank you Benjamin.