How does one use a mongodb ConventionPack in c# I have the following code:
MongoDatabase Repository = Server.GetDatabase(RepoName);
this.Collection = Repository.GetCollection<T>(CollectionName);
var myConventions = new ConventionPack();
myConventions.Add(new CamelCaseElementNameConvention());
Does the convention pack automatically attach to this.Collection? When I load in a new object will it automatically persist it as this case? Do I have to add tags in my class declaration (like a data contract)?
You need to register the pack in the ConventionRegistry
:
var pack = new ConventionPack();
pack.Add(new CamelCaseElementNameConvention());
ConventionRegistry.Register("camel case",
pack,
t => t.FullName.StartsWith("Your.Name.Space."));
If you want to apply this globally, you can replace the last param with something simpler like t => true
.
Working sample code that serializes and de-serializes (driver 1.8.20, mongodb 2.5.0):
using System;
using System.Linq;
using MongoDB.Bson;
using MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.Conventions;
using MongoDB.Driver;
namespace playground
{
class Simple
{
public ObjectId Id { get; set; }
public String Name { get; set; }
public int Counter { get; set; }
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
MongoClient client = new MongoClient("mongodb://localhost/test");
var db = client.GetServer().GetDatabase("test");
var collection = db.GetCollection<Simple>("Simple");
var pack = new ConventionPack();
pack.Add(new CamelCaseElementNameConvention());
ConventionRegistry.Register("camel case", pack, t => true);
collection.Insert(new Simple { Counter = 1234, Name = "John" });
var all = collection.FindAll().ToList();
Console.WriteLine("Name: " + all[0].Name);
}
}
}