Getting all root properties - azure-cosmosdb

Question

Let's say I have a DocumentDB collection populated with documents that have this shape:
[{ "Name": "KT", "Dob": "5/25/1990", "Children": [], "IsMale": false },
{ "Name": "Chris", "Dob": "10/1/1980", "Children": [], "IsMale": true }]
Now let's say I don't the structure of the documents above.
Is there a query I can write that will return me a distinct list of those property names ("Name", "Dob", "Children", "IsMale")?
In other words, is there a way for be to sniff out the schema of those documents?

Answer 1

This might be a duplicate of this question. In any case, the answers there might give you some ideas.
tl;dr; The only way to do it is to read all of the docs. You can pull them all back to your machine or you can read them inside of a stored procedure and only send the calculated schema back to your machine.

Answer 2

You need a dynamic ORM or ODM for Azure DocumentDB like Slazure to do something like this. Example follows:
using SysSurge.Slazure.AzureDocumentDB.Linq;
using SysSurge.Slazure.Core;
using SysSurge.Slazure.Core.Linq.QueryParser;
public void EnumProperties()
{
// Get a reference to the collection
dynamic storage = new QueryableStorage<DynDocument>("URL=https://contoso.documents.azure.com:443/;DBID=DDBExample;TOKEN=VZ+qKPAkl9TtX==");
QueryableCollection<DynDocument> collection = storage.TestCustomers;
// Build collection query
var queryResult = collection.Where("SignedUpForNewsletter = true and Age < 22");
foreach (DynDocument document in queryResult)
{
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, IDynProperty> keyValuePair in document)
{
Console.WriteLine(keyValuePair.Key);
}
}
}