I'm trying to make a one-to-many relationship with MongoDb, but stucked on joining the two collections. I did an example below to see how I am doing this now.
// schools collection
{
_id: ObjectId("5ef206d1d21c573718ae6eda")
name: "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry"
}
// students collection
{
_id: ObjectId("5efed5df8b28770c2cb344b9"),
school_id: ObjectId("5ef206d1d21c573718ae6eda")
firstName: "Harry"
lastName: "Potter"
}
And model classes in the .net project:
public class School
{
[BsonId]
[BsonRepresentation(BsonType.ObjectId)]
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public List<Student> Students { get; set; }
}
public class Student
{
[BsonId]
[BsonRepresentation(BsonType.ObjectId)]
public string Id { get; set; }
[BsonRepresentation(BsonType.ObjectId)]
[Required]
public string School_id { get; set; }
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
}
How can I map the students
into the school
object? I tried these codes, but none of them work.
// 1st attempt
var q = _schools.Aggregate().Lookup<School, Student, School>(_students, school => school.Id, student
=> student.school_id, a => a.Students);
// 2nd attempt
var q = from school in _schools.AsQueryable()
join student in _students.AsQueryable() on school.Id equals student.school_id into students
select new School()
{
Students = students
};
var result = q.ToList();
What am I missing?
Actually both code snippets are work, the only thing was wrong, that I mispelled the school_id
value in the database and referenced to a non-existing School
document.