I want to take the raw JSON body from an HTTP post and write it directly into my CosmosDB.
Let’s say the data looks like this:
{
"id": "123456",
"storeName": "City Bar and Grille",
"invoiceTotal": 65
}
However, the documentsOut.AddAsync command uses a format like this:
wait documentsOut.AddAsync(new
{
// create a random ID
id = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
body = sourceJson
});
And then I end up with a document that looks like this:
{
"id": "0e99d3ab-1956-4c0a-8ec1-99de5c987555",
"body": {
"id": "123456",
"storeName": "City Bar and Grille",
"invoiceTotal": 65
}
}
What I really want is to end up with this:
{
"id": "123456",
"storeName": "City Bar and Grille",
"invoiceTotal": 65
}
I’d like to drop the id = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString() completely (which should not be hard).
How can I pass the raw JSON through without needing to add it to some parent node (such as body)?
2
Answers
Using a similar example as shared by you in the question.
We can create a Model class with properties which want to store in database.
Then can create object of model and pass that object to
AddAsync()
method. As shown in below screenshot.and when we triggered post API, got response as shown below.
As finally we can see the same record is stored in CosmosDB.
Just to formalize my comment as an answer: You’re specifically creating the
body
property of the Cosmos DB document you’re creating:At the same time, you’re ignoring the incoming ID. Since you wanted to preserve that ID, You can copy the ID over (as long as it remains unique within the partition) instead of generating a new GUID, and also grab individual properties from
sourceJson
to avoid the nestedbody
element: