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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

The PUT request


The PUT verb is an HTTP method that can be used to create a resource, with the information in the request, for the URL specified by the client. It is important to note that a PUT verb in RavenDB will always create the specified document at the requested URL. If the resource already exists, PUT simply replaces what existed with the new information.

In order to put any document into RavenDB, we will create a PUT request and use the docs structure. We have to specify the document ID and the document data in JSON format. Also, we need to specify the name of the collection to which the document will belong. The PUT request URL is similar to the GET request URL we created in the previous section.

In case that a PUT request is sent to the RavenDB's docs structure without specifying the document ID in the request URL, this request is considered as invalid and RavenDB will return an HTTP error response code.

Once the request is sent to RavenDB, it will respond with the ID of the document...