Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
class	MongoDB	MBS MongoDB Plugin	25.2	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	✅ Yes	All

This class provides a MongoDB gridfs implementation.

The system as a whole is made up of gridfs objects, which contain gridfs files and gridfs file lists. Essentially, a basic file system API.

There are extensive caveats about the kind of use cases gridfs is practical for. In particular, any writing after initial file creation is likely to both break any concurrent readers and be quite expensive. That said, this implementation does allow for arbitrary writes to existing gridfs object, just use them with caution.

mongoc_gridfs also integrates tightly with the MongoStreamMBS class abstraction, which provides some convenient wrapping for file creation and reading/writing. It can be used without, but its worth looking to see if your problem can fit that model.

MongoGridFSMBS is NOT thread-safe and should only be used in the same thread as the owning MongoClientMBS.
This is an abstract class. You can't create an instance, but you can get one from various plugin functions.