RavenDB Ids and ASP.NET MVC3 Routes

Question

Just building a quick, simple site with MVC 3 RC2 and RavenDB to test some things out.

I\'ve been able to make a bunch of projects, but I\'m curious as to how Html.Acti

Answer 1

I just downloaded the latest version of RavenDB and tried this out.

public class Entity {
    public int Id { get;set; }
    public string Text { get;set; }
}

When I saved it to RavenDB, the id in Raven was "entities/1", but the mapping in RavenDB client was able to successfully interpret the Id from what was in the database to the integer that I wanted.

var entity = session.Load(1);
Assert.IsTrue(entity.Id == 1);

You do not need a extension method, and this way you would not need to alter any routes as mentioned above, because you will be dealing with good ol' integers. The string Ids were almost a deal breaker, but amazingly this works so RavenDB is back in the hunt.

• Note: I figured this out from watching a Rob Ashton talk and realizing that all his document classes had integers as Ids.