System.FormatException' occurred in MongoDB.Bson.dll - XXX is not a valid 24 digit hex string

Question

I have created a C# class like this:

 public class Employee
    {
        [BsonRepresentation(BsonType.ObjectId)]
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public int Age { get; set; }
        public List<string> Address { get; set; }
    }

When I try to save this information (using MongoDB) like this:

   var e = new Employee();
    e.Address = new List<string>();
    e.Address.Add("Address 1");
    e.Address.Add("Address 2");

    e.Age = 333;
    e.Name = "Some Name";

   context.Employees.Insert(e);

I am getting following error:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.FormatException' occurred in MongoDB.Bson.dll

Additional information: 'Some Name' is not a valid 24 digit hex string.

How can I make a string field to act as ObjectID in MongoDB?

Answer 1

Reading from the docs:

... In this case the serializer will convert the ObjectId to a string when reading data from the database and will convert the string back to an ObjectId when writing data to the database (the string value must be a valid ObjectId) ....

Please remove the white space from your string. Than everything should work!

To proof wether you have a valid ObjectId, read the following SO-Post: MongoDB Node check if objectid is valid

EDIT: the final answer was: You have to change [BsonRepresentation(BsonType.ObjectId)] to [BsonId]