Defining data persistence

The last step in this chapter is to store our values regularly. In later chapters, when we present different communication protocols, we will show how to make these values available to users. Since we will use an object database to store our data, we need to create a class that defines what to store. We start with the class definition:

[TypeName(TypeNameSerialization.None)] 
[CollectionName("MinuteValues")] 
[Index("Timestamp")] 
public class LastMinute 
{ 
   [ObjectId] 
   public string ObjectId = null; 
}

The class is decorated with a couple of attributes from the Waher.Persistence.Attributes namespace. The CollectionName attribute defines the collection in which objects of this class will be stored. The TypeName attribute defines if we want the type name to be stored with the data. This is useful, if you mix different types of...