Question

I’m trying to import some json data into Mongo and keep getting an error. I’m doing the import like this

mongoimport --stopOnError --db s  --collection names  < snow.json

The error it’s giving me is

 Failure parsing JSON string near: ,

exception:BSON representation of supplied JSON is too large: Failure parsing JSON string near: ,

this is the json data. There’s actually more (about 9) entries, but i get the error even when there’s two. I copied this format from another json file that I was able to import. Running it through the json validator says

Expecting 'EOF', '}', ',', ']'

around the end of the first entry, but it says the same thing for the file I imported successfully too. Can you tell me what’s wrong?

{ "firstname" : "Dave", "initial" : "M", "lastname" : "Smore", "firm" : "", "address" : "PO Box 479, Vancouver BC V1L 5R3", 
"email" : "[e-mail]", "phone" : "[phone]" , "fax" : "[phone]", "sex": "m"} 

{ "firstname" : "Kerry", "initial" : "C", "lastname" : "Amber", "firm" : "K Amber Corporation", 
"address" : "980 5th Ave, Snowbank, BC V2L 3H8", "email" : "[e-mail]", "phone" : "604 622 6156" , "fax" : "604 662-4532", "sex": "f"}

Answer 1

Thanks to the comment by @attish, the import worked after I removed line breaks from the json file.