JObject.ToBsonDocument dropping values
This does what I was expecting.
public int AddProductDetails(JObject json)
{
BsonDocument doc = BsonDocument.Parse(json.ToString());
_products.Insert(doc);
}
I ran into this issue when I had a C# class with a property of type JObject
.
My Solution was to create JObjectSerializer
for MondoDB and add the attribute to the property so Mongo serializer uses it. I assume if I tried hard enough I could register the below serializer in Mongo as the global one for this type as well.
Register serializer for property processing:
[BsonSerializer(typeof(JObjectSerializer))]
public JObject AdditionalData { get; set; }
The serializer itself:
public class JObjectSerializer : SerializerBase<JObject> // IBsonSerializer<JObject>
{
public override JObject Deserialize(BsonDeserializationContext context, BsonDeserializationArgs args)
{
var myBSONDoc = BsonDocumentSerializer.Instance.Deserialize(context);
return JObject.Parse(myBSONDoc.ToString());
}
public override void Serialize(BsonSerializationContext context, BsonSerializationArgs args, JObject value)
{
var myBSONDoc = MongoDB.Bson.BsonDocument.Parse(value.ToString());
BsonDocumentSerializer.Instance.Serialize(context, myBSONDoc);
}
}
The problem when using JObject.ToString
, BsonDocument.Parse
, etc. is the performance is not very good because you do the same operations multiple times, you do string allocations, parsing, etc.
So, I have written a function that converts a JObject
to an IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, object>>
(only using enumerations), which is a type usable by one of the BsonDocument
constructors. Here is the code:
public static BsonDocument ToBsonDocument(this JObject jo)
{
if (jo == null)
return null;
return new BsonDocument(ToEnumerableWithObjects(jo));
}
public static IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, object>> ToEnumerableWithObjects(this JObject jo)
{
if (jo == null)
return Enumerable.Empty<KeyValuePair<string, object>>();
return new JObjectWrapper(jo);
}
private class JObjectWrapper : IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, object>>
{
private JObject _jo;
public JObjectWrapper(JObject jo)
{
_jo = jo;
}
public IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<string, object>> GetEnumerator() => new JObjectWrapperEnumerator(_jo);
IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator() => GetEnumerator();
public static object ToValue(JToken token)
{
object value;
switch (token.Type)
{
case JTokenType.Object:
value = new JObjectWrapper((JObject)token);
break;
case JTokenType.Array:
value = new JArrayWrapper((JArray)token);
break;
default:
if (token is JValue jv)
{
value = ((JValue)token).Value;
}
else
{
value = token.ToString();
}
break;
}
return value;
}
}
private class JArrayWrapper : IEnumerable
{
private JArray _ja;
public JArrayWrapper(JArray ja)
{
_ja = ja;
}
public IEnumerator GetEnumerator() => new JArrayWrapperEnumerator(_ja);
}
private class JArrayWrapperEnumerator : IEnumerator
{
private IEnumerator<JToken> _enum;
public JArrayWrapperEnumerator(JArray ja)
{
_enum = ja.GetEnumerator();
}
public object Current => JObjectWrapper.ToValue(_enum.Current);
public bool MoveNext() => _enum.MoveNext();
public void Reset() => _enum.Reset();
}
private class JObjectWrapperEnumerator : IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<string, object>>
{
private IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<string, JToken>> _enum;
public JObjectWrapperEnumerator(JObject jo)
{
_enum = jo.GetEnumerator();
}
public KeyValuePair<string, object> Current => new KeyValuePair<string, object>(_enum.Current.Key, JObjectWrapper.ToValue(_enum.Current.Value));
public bool MoveNext() => _enum.MoveNext();
public void Dispose() => _enum.Dispose();
public void Reset() => _enum.Reset();
object IEnumerator.Current => Current;
}