It would be handy if JSON parsing facilities in the Java driver existed that used compatible types with the collection/database methods that take BSON parameters.

Notably, parsing a JSON string to pass to the "aggregate" method requires some fiddling to bring the two APIs into alignment. This same condition arises in a few other places wherever something other than BsonDocument is required.

To go from a JSON string to something which can be passed to the aggregate method, for example, requires this rather unwieldy extra step:

BsonArray array = new BsonArrayCodec(MongoClient.getDefaultCodecRegistry())
        .decode(new JsonReader(myJsonString), DecoderContext.builder().build());

This ticket is to request the implementation of some intuitive utility methods to bridge the gap. Perhaps directly in the JSON class.