Mapping parent / child class to one (same) document

[Alex Brown]

Currently, I have one large class that looks like:

   public class Result

    {

        public virtual int ResultId { get; set; }

        public virtual DateTime ResultDate { get; set; }

        public virtual string ResultVenue { get; set; }

        public virtual string DisciplineCode { get; set; }

        public virtual string DisciplineName { get; set; }

        public virtual string DisciplineDescription { get; set; }

       //other properties removed for brevity

   }

This is stored as a flat document in the result collection in my mongodb db.

Is it possible to break this up, and create a Discipline class such as:

   public class Discipline

    {

        public virtual string Code { get; set; }

        public virtual string Name { get; set; }

        public virtual string Description { get; set; }

   }

And change my Result class to:

   public class Result

    {

        public virtual int ResultId { get; set; }

        public virtual DateTime ResultDate { get; set; }

        public virtual Discipline Discipline { get; set; }

       //other properties

   }

But still keep this mapped as ONE document?

[craiggwilson]

Absolutely.  MongoDB can store anything that JSON can store.  We will not flatten it in the datastore to match your first class, but this would serialize like the below document.

{

  ResultId : 1,

  ResultDate, Date("..."),

  Discipline: 

  {

    Code : "123",

    Name: "Awesome",

    Description: "Some awesome discipline",

  }

  ... other properties

[Alex Brown]

Cool,

I was hoping it was like that!

Thanks