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RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By : Khaled Tannir
Book Image

RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide

By: Khaled Tannir

Overview of this book

RavenDB is a second generation document database written in .NET, offering a flexible data model designed to address requirements coming from real-world systems. It is different from the other document databases around, as with RavenDB you can get up and running in a few minutes, and that includes grasping all the basics. It allows you to build high-performance, low-latency applications with ease and efficiency.RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide introduces RavenDB concepts and teaches you everything, right from installing RavenDB, to creating documents, and querying indexes. This book will help you take advantage of powerful, document-oriented NoSQL databases and build a solid foundation on which you can create your .NET applications. This book presents RavenDB, the .NET document-oriented NoSQL database, through a series of clear and practical exercises that will help you to take advantage of this database server. The book starts off with an introduction to RavenDB and its Management Studio. You will then move ahead and learn how to quickly and efficiently build high performance, NoSQL document-oriented .NET applications using the .NET client API or the HTTP REST API. Next, Dynamic and static indexes that use map/reduce to process datasets are covered. You will then see how to create and query these indexes, with the help of detailed examples. You will also learn how to deploy your RavenDB server in a production environment and how to optimize and secure it.With numerous practical examples, RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide teaches you everything you need to know for building high performance .NET document-oriented NoSQL databases.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
RavenDB 2.x Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – performing a GET request


You will learn to create a GET request using the RESTClient tool we have downloaded in the previous section to retrieve the document with the ID = Orders/A655302 from the Orders database and view it. (We created the Orders database in Chapter 2, RavenDB Management Studio.)

  1. If it is not already open, double-click on the RESTClient tool's JAR file in order to launch it.

  2. Click on the Method tab and select the GET HTTP method.

  3. In the HTTP Request section, enter this URL: http://localhost:8080/databases/orders/docs/orders/a655302.

    Note

    To perform this GET request, we don't need to change any of the Header or the Body, or other parameters.

  4. Click on the green Go! button to send your first request to the server.

What just happened?

You just created your first GET request to retrieve the order document with the ID Orders/A655302 from the Orders database directly by using the RavenDB HTTP API.

Let's have a look at the server response and analyze it. The first thing...