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module XGen
  module Mongo
    module Driver

      # An array of binary bytes. The only reason this exists is so that the
      # BSON encoder will know to output the Mongo BINARY type.
      class Binary < String; end

    end
  end
end

class String
  # Convert a string into a XGen::Mongo::Driver::Binary
  def to_mongo_binary
    XGen::Mongo::Driver::Binary.new(self)
  end
end