I created a directory in File Table. Now I need to insert files inside that directory. As parent_path_locator can not be set, I can't think of how to achieve this. I am doing all these in code.
This is how i created directory;
Dim insertDir = "insert into dbo.DocumentStore(name,is_directory,is_archive) output INSERTED.path_locator values(@name,1,0)"
Using sqlCommand As New SqlCommand(insertDir, con)
sqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@name", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = Me.txtGroupName.Text
parentPathLocator = sqlCommand.ExecuteScalar()
End Using
Note: I saw we can use dbo.GetNewPathLocator(path) to get a sub directory path based on the path locator. But I'm not sure how to use this in my case to insert a file.
Update: I found how to do it in TSQL TSQL but how to do this in code?
Finally I figured out how to do it:
Create folder and get path locator
Dim insertDir = "insert into dbo.DocumentStore(name,is_directory,is_archive) output INSERTED.path_locator values(@name,1,0)"
Using sqlCommand As New SqlCommand(insertDir, con)
sqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@name", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = Me.txtGroupName.Text
parentPathLocator = sqlCommand.ExecuteScalar()
End Using
Create a new hierachyID
Dim retnewpath = "select CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), CONVERT(BIGINT, SUBSTRING(CONVERT(BINARY(16), NEWID()), 1, 6))) +'.'+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), CONVERT(BIGINT, SUBSTRING(CONVERT(BINARY(16), NEWID()), 7, 6))) +'.'+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), CONVERT(BIGINT, SUBSTRING(CONVERT(BINARY(16), NEWID()), 13, 4))) as path"
Using sqlCommand As New SqlCommand(retnewpath, con)
subpathlocator = sqlCommand.ExecuteScalar()
subpathlocator = parentPathLocator.ToString() & subpathlocator & "/"
End Using
Insert file with new hierarchyid as path locator
Dim insertStr = "insert into dbo.DocumentStore(name,file_stream,path_locator) output INSERTED.stream_id values(@name,@file_stream,@parent_path_locator)"
Using sqlCommand As New SqlCommand(insertStr, con)
sqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@name", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = Path.GetFileName(filename)
sqlCommand.Parameters.Add("@file_stream", SqlDbType.VarBinary).Value = fileStream
sqlCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@parent_path_locator", subpathlocator)
streamID = sqlCommand.ExecuteScalar()
End Using
I used this link to create the hierachyId, so I don't understand it completely yet.