Reading field's value in MongoDB with C#

Question

I have Mongo DataBase. I need to output field's values in my collection, but I can output only document. I need to output doc.Name, doc.Email and doc.Password. Thank you!

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var dbClient = new MongoClient("mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017");
        IMongoDatabase db = dbClient.GetDatabase("Authentication");
        string[] testlit;
        var cars = db.GetCollection<BsonDocument>("Accounts");
        var documents = cars.Find(new BsonDocument()).ToList();
        foreach (BsonDocument doc in documents)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(doc.ToString());
        }
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Answer 1

You may do it like

var dbClient = new MongoClient("mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017");
IMongoDatabase db = dbClient.GetDatabase("Authentication");
var accounts = db.GetCollection<BsonDocument>("Accounts");
//accounts.InsertOne(new BsonDocument(new Dictionary<string, object>
//{
//    ["Name"] = "Name of account", ["Email"] = "myemail@account.com",
//    ["Password"] = "don't ever do that to me. I hope this is a hash...",
//    ["SomeOtherField"] = "don't need it"
//}));
var projection = Builders<BsonDocument>.Projection.Include("Name").Include("Email").Include("Password").Exclude("_id");
var documents = accounts.Find(new BsonDocument()).Project(projection).ToList();
foreach (BsonDocument doc in documents)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Name: {doc.GetValue("Name")}\nEmail: {doc.GetValue("Email")}\nPassword: {doc.GetValue("Password")}");
    //Name: Name of account
    //Email: myemail @account.com
    //Password: don't ever do that to me. I hope this is a hash...
}

With projection the fields are included/excluded at database. Less data travels. If you need the values later, leave out the projection part. You can have your fields with doc.GetValue .