fix: Fix backwards compatibility with older BSON package versions #411
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The isBuffer check in the buffer module was too strict and led to a failure to deal with older BSON module Binary types. There is now an improved more relaxed method. NODE-2848
emadum approved these changes Nov 16, 2020
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I think a comment block somewhere at the top of this file would be useful to future maintainers, explaining what it is doing and why it's needed.
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The isBuffer check in the buffer module was too strict and led to a failure to deal with older BSON module Binary types. There is now an improved more relaxed method.
NODE-2848
I added testing for this, we can easily expand it to cover more types/cases with older versions of the library.