Insert json documents in DocumentDB

Question

In the DocumentDB documentation docs, I find inserting C # objects.

// Create the Andersen family document. Family AndersenFamily = new Family { Id = "AndersenFamily", LastName = "Andersen", Parents = new Parent[] { new Parent { FirstName = "Thomas" }, new Parent { FirstName = "Mary Kay"} }, IsRegistered = true }; await client.CreateDocumentAsync(documentCollection.DocumentsLink, AndersenFamily); 

In my case, I get json strings from the application client and would like to insert them into DocumentDB without deserializing them. Could not find any examples of doing something similar.

Any help is truly appreciated.

thanks

Answer 1

Copied from a published .NET sample. -

  private static async Task UseStreams(string colSelfLink) { var dir = new DirectoryInfo(@".\Data"); var files = dir.EnumerateFiles("*.json"); foreach (var file in files) { using (var fileStream = new FileStream(file.FullName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { Document doc = await client.CreateDocumentAsync(colSelfLink, Resource.LoadFrom<Document>(fileStream)); Console.WriteLine("Created Document: ", doc); } } //Read one the documents created above directly in to a Json string Document readDoc = client.CreateDocumentQuery(colSelfLink).Where(d => d.Id == "JSON1").AsEnumerable().First(); string content = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(readDoc); //Update a document with some Json text, //Here we're replacing a previously created document with some new text and even introudcing a new Property, Status=Cancelled using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{\"id\": \"JSON1\",\"PurchaseOrderNumber\": \"PO18009186470\",\"Status\": \"Cancelled\"}"))) { await client.ReplaceDocumentAsync(readDoc.SelfLink, Resource.LoadFrom<Document>(memoryStream)); } }