The beauty of JSON is you could incredibly easily write such jquery like chained expression to generate the mongo query. JSON is a good ascii representation of

The beauty of JSON is you could incredibly easily write such jquery like chained expression to generate the mongo query. JSON is a good ascii representation of structured data thats compact, quite readable and reasonably human editable. Its not an abuse of JSON to use it as a way of representing queries, but its probably a shame that Mongo haven't provided a better way of generating queries.