parse-bson-objectid

Parse parts of a MongoDB BSON ObjectId:

• timestamp: 4-byte timestamp (Number, big-endian signed integer)
• machine: 3-byte machine identifier (Buffer, byte sequence)
• pid: 2-byte process id (Number, big-endian unsigned integer)
• counter: 3-byte counter (Number, big-endian unsigned integer)

Install

npm: parse-bson-objectid

npm install parse-bson-objectid

Example

> var parse = require("parse-bson-objectid");
> parse("564b86ef165bd87b6e595515")
{ timestamp: 1447790319,
  machine: <Buffer 16 5b d8>,
  pid: 31598,
  counter: 5854485 }

API

var parse = require("parse-bson-objectid");

parse(objectid)

Parse an objectid into individual ObjectID parts. objectid can be given as:

• A buffer
• A hex string
• An instance of ObjectId (any object with .toHexString() function)