Time for action – retrieving and updating anattachment's metadata

You will write two new methods to the Program class: the first method will retrieve the metadata information for a given attachment based on its key, the second method will update the metadata information for an attachment.

1. Start Visual Studio and open the RavenDB_Ch06 solution.

2. Add the following code to the Main() method:

   

3. Save all the files, build and run the solution.

What just happened?

We just retrieved the metadata information for the attachment with the ID as flag/1098 and updated them.

To retrieve the attachment metadata you call the HeadAttachment() method and specify the attachment key. This method returns the attachment header through which you can get its field values (line 65).

To update the metadata you called the UpdateAttachmentMetadata() method and provided the new metadata values (lines 73 to 79).

Have a go hero – updating and deleting attachments

Write two new methods to the Program class to update and delete an...