mongo-dotnet-odata

An OData Provider for MongoDB. Requires OData version 3 for support of mongodb arrays.

Getting Started

It's extremely easy to get an odata service up and running with mongodb. Below are a few simple steps:

1. Using nuget, simply pull down the MongoDB.OData package.

2. Create a class that you want to be your OData container name.

    [MongoDatabase("hr")]
    public class Sample
    {
    	[MongoCollection("people")]
    	public MongoCollection<Person> People { get; set; }
   
    	[MongoCollection("users")]
    	public MongoCollection<User> Users { get; set; }
    }
   

3. Create a WCF Data Service

4. Inherit from MongoDataService<T> and implement the abstract methods. Also, like any other WCF data service, you need to configure the entity.

    public class SampleService : MongoDataService<Sample>
    {
        // This method is called only once to initialize service-wide policies.
        public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config)
        {
        	// MongoDataService<T> has a method that pre-configures some stuff for you...
            Configure(config); 
   
            // Set these as necessary
            config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("*", EntitySetRights.All);
            config.SetServiceOperationAccessRule("*", ServiceOperationRights.AllRead);
        }
   
        protected override MongoServer CreateMongoServer()
        {
        	// use whatever your connection string is.  if you don't know how to form a 
        	// mongodb connection string, please refer to the mongodb documentation at 
        	// http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/CSharp+Driver+Tutorial#CSharpDriverTutorial-Connectionstrings.
        	return MongoServer.Create();
    	}
    }
   

5. That's it. You can see the samples for working examples.

Supported Features

• Queries
  • OData Entity Types - MongoDB Documents
  • OData Complex Types - MongoDB Embedded Documents
  • OData Collections - MongoDB Arrays
• OData Service Operations

Future Development

• Projections
• Spatial Literals
• Updating
• ObjectId translation