Non Obtrusive JSON Document Deseralization

Hi there,

There was some discussion about the 1.3x SDK not forcefully injecting the "ID" property with the object's key.

The previous discussion was briefly mentioned here:
https://www.couchbase.com/issues/browse/NCBC-564

For convenience:
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I am having problems with this section of code:

if (!IsArrayOrCollection(typeof(T)))

{ value = DocHelper.InsertId(value, key); }

I am managing all the document IDs myself in my application. But DocHelper keeps interfering with my ID during deserialization. Is there a way we can possibly set a flag that wont interfere with my JSON ?

One example: All my domain objects have a strongly typed Guid as their ID.

The KEY to an Account object is "acct:aaaa-bb-cc-dd".

POCO in C#:
public class Account{
public Guid Id

{get;set;}
}

I format the key to this object inside my App; however, during deserialization DocHelper interferes with the JSON by injecting the KEY: "acct:aaaa-bb-cc-dd" into the ID property in the JSON before deseralization.

So when Newtonsoft deserializes the JSON with the injected DocHelper Id:Key:"acct:aaaa-bb-cc-dd" cannot be converted to a Guid because of the prefix "acct:" is an invalid Guid format. I'd prefer the SDK not interfere with any of my ser/deser JSON.

Perhaps we can add some flag that can short circuit the DocHelper injection?
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Any suggestions on implementation?

As a static configuration variable on DocHelper or via App.config?

Of course, the default behavior would be to keep things as is for a non-breaking change.

Using something like a static property:

public static class DocHelper
{
public static bool DisableIdInsert{get;set;}

public static string InsertId(string json, string id)
{
if (!DisableIdInsert && !json.Contains("\"id\""))

{ return json.Insert(1, string.Concat("\"id\":", "\"", id, "\",")); }

return json;
}
}

Thanks,
Brian