Retrieving entire data collection from a RavenDB

Question

I have a requirement where I need to fetch the entire data collection Users from RavenDB and compare the retrieved result set with another set of data. There are cl

Answer 1

I like Al Dass solution of getting ids to operate on instead of complete large objects. Also getting the ids directly from the index. However the recursion scares me a bit (even though I think it might be ok) and I removed the reflection.

public List GetAllIds()
{
var allIds = new List();
IDocumentSession session = null;

try
{
    session = documentStore.OpenSession();
    int queryCount = 0;
    int start = 0;
    while (true)
    {
        var current = session.Advanced.DocumentQuery()
            .Take(1024)
            .Skip(start)
            .SelectFields("__document_id")
            .AddOrder("__document_id")
            .ToList();

        if (current.Count == 0)
            break;
        allIds.AddRange(current);

        queryCount += 1;
        start += current.Count;

        if (queryCount == 30)
        {
            queryCount = 0;
            session.Dispose();
            session = documentStore.OpenSession();
        }
    }
}
finally
{
    if (session != null)
    {
        session.Dispose();
    }
}

return allIds;
}

also, this is updated to ravendb 3