json - Mongodb Mongoimport too large: Failure parsing errors

Question

I am trying to import into MongoDB 70 mb json file that is valid. But, I am getting this error over and over in a loop:

 01 11:42:20 exception:BSON representation of supplied JSON is too large: Failure parsing JSON string near: "name": "L
 01 11:42:20
 01 11:42:20 Assertion: 10340:Failure parsing JSON string near: "link": "h
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 kernel32.dll       BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
 01 11:42:20 ntdll.dll          RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
 01 11:42:20 exception:BSON representation of supplied JSON is too large: Failure parsing JSON string near: "link": "h
 01 11:42:20
 01 11:42:20 Assertion: 10340:Failure parsing JSON string near: }
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 kernel32.dll       BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
 01 11:42:20 ntdll.dll          RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
 01 11:42:20 exception:BSON representation of supplied JSON is too large: Failure parsing JSON string near: }
 01 11:42:20
 01 11:42:20 Assertion: 10340:Failure parsing JSON string near: ],
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 mongoimport.exe    ???
 01 11:42:20 kernel32.dll       BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12
 01 11:42:20 ntdll.dll          RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0xef
 01 11:42:20 exception:BSON representation of supplied JSON is too large: Failure parsing JSON string near: ],

My JSON ( only small example from it ) consist many many structures like this one :

[ 
{
   "data": [
         "id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
         "from": {
            "name": "yyyyyyyyyyy",
            "id": "1111111111111"
         },
         "to": {
            "data": [
               {
                  "version": 1,
                  "name": "1111111111111",
                  "id": "1111111111111"
               }
            ]
         },
         "picture": "fffffffffffffffffffffff.jpg",
         "link": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqqqqqqqqqqq",
         "source": "http://www.youtube.com/v/qqqqqqqqqqqqq?version=3&autohide=1&autoplay=1",
         "name": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
         "description": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...",
         "icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/xxx/r/dddd",
         "actions": [
            {
               "name": "Comment",
               "link": "http://www.example.com/1111111111111/posts/1111111111111"
            },
            {
               "name": "Like",
               "link": "http://www.example.com/1111111111111/posts/1111111111111"
            }
         ],
         "privacy": {
            "value": ""
         },
         "type": "video",
         "created_time": 1356953890,
         "updated_time": 1356953890,
         "likes": {
            "data": [
               {
                  "name": "jjj ",
                  "id": "59xxx67"
               },
               {
                  "name": "xxxxx",
                  "id": "79xxx27"
               }
            ],
            "count": 2
         },
         "comments": {
            "count": 0
         }
      },

....
....
....
}
]

this is the general patern of the json ":

[
{
   "data": [
      {

      }
    ],
    "paging": {
      "previous": "link",
      "next": "link"
   }
},
   "data": [
      {
      }
    ],
    "paging": {
      "previous": "link",
      "next": "link"
   }
},
"data": [
      {
      }
    ],
    "paging": {
      "previous": "link",
      "next": "link"
   }
}
]

Answer 1

Instead of using:

mongoimport -d DATABASE_NAME -c COLLECTION_NAME --file YOUR_JSON_FILE

use the following command:

mongoimport -d DATABASE_NAME -c COLLECTION_NAME --file YOUR_JSON_FILE --jsonArray