C# equivalent to db.repairDatabase()

Question

Is there a way to call MongoDB's db.repairDatabase() function from the C# driver?

I am able to compact collections:

database.RunCommand(new CommandDocument("compact","collectionname"));

But I don't manage to call repairDatabase.

Answer 1

In response to your comment that you got an exception with the message "bad option", it turns out that the server is picky about whether you use 1 or true as the value for the repairDatabase field. The following two are equivalent and both fail because the server doesn't like "true" instead of "1":

database.RunCommand("repairDatabase");
database.RunCommnad(new CommandDocument("repairDatabase", true));

but this works:

database.RunCommnad(new CommandDocument("repairDatabase", 1));

You could report a JIRA against the server if this concerns you:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER

Answer 2

The database.RunCommand method is overloaded. It can also take a string that is the name of command, as follows:

database.RunCommand("repairDatabase")

It also returns a CommandResult object.