How to update/create already serialized document (string, JObject), without IDictionary<string, object>

[ni...@machinezone.com]

(Using xamarin lite, C# but general couchbase lite question)

Couchbase document.properties is IDictionary<String, Object> properties. Objects in business logic layer have different representations of course, and include nested members, also arrays etc (not trivial 1 level key-value types). 

In order to update a document, I can serialize my objects to JObject  or just json string but I don't want to handcraft each type to convert it to dictionaries. I dont see anything in API besides IDictionary<String, Object> properties.

Is there a way to update/create document by giving it json (and not IDictionary)?

Note:

The opposite direction, ie retrieving document properties into json, is ok for me because JObject.FromObject(document.properties) is correctly handling Couchbase IDictionary<string, object> from coucbhase document and so i can correctly deserialize results into my types.

[Jens Alfke]

On Mar 3, 2015, at 10:29 AM, ni...@machinezone.com wrote:

Couchbase document.properties is IDictionary<String, Object> properties. Objects in business logic layer have different representations of course, and include nested members, also arrays etc (not trivial 1 level key-value types). 

Couchbase Lite documents are JSON objects, so they can have nested arrays/dictionaries. In other words, the ‘Object’ value type can include IDictionary or IArray, as well as scalars.

—Jens

[PRASANNA KUMAR]

i'll suggest you to follow the some dictionary formates

Map<String, Object> mapAuditProperties = new HashMap<String, Object>();
mapAuditProperties.put(DATES, getDateKeyValue());

/**
     * To get dateKey HashMap
     * @return  datesmap
     */
    private Object getDateKeyValue(){       
        HashMap<String, String> datesmap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        datesmap.put(CREATIONDATE, edAudits.getCreationDate());
        datesmap.put(LASTMODIFIEDDATE, edAudits.getLastModifiedDate());
        return datesmap;

[Zachary Gramana]

Nika,

We’re going to be adding this use case as part of our upcoming “convenience” API.

In C#, you’ll be able to do something like:

var myObj = new Employee 

{ 

Id = "zg", 

FirstName = "Zack", 

LastName = "Gramana", 

DepartmentId = 1

  };

db.Save(myObj);

and

var myObj = db.Get<Employee>("zg");

It wouldn’t be hard to add something like:

 db.Save("zg", "{'firstName':'Zack',…}"); 

Is the use case you have in mind a HttpClient fetch-and-store from a REST endpoint?

On Mar 3, 2015, at 10:29 AM, ni...@machinezone.com wrote:

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