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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 Patch request


You will open the document you just added to the Orders database using the Management Studio in order to copy its ID. Then, you will patch this document using the PATCH request. The patch request will add two new fields to the document: Colour and Discount. After that, you will view the modified document in the Management Studio:

  1. Open the Management Studio and select the Orders database.

  2. Click on the Documents tab and open the document which has a Guid as ID.

  3. Copy the document ID to the clipboard.

  4. Launch the RESTClient tool.

  5. Click on the Method tab and select the PATCH HTTP method.

  6. In the HTTP Request section, enter this URL and complete it by the document Guid you stored on the clipboard: http://localhost:8080/databases/orders/docs/{your Guid}.

  7. Click on the Header tab and ensure that the Raven-Entity-Name metadata key is sent to the RavenDB server with the Value = Orders.

  8. Click on the Body tab and select String Body in the drop-down list.

  9. Enter the following...