The name 'NodaTimeField' does not exist in the current context error during installation of index on RavenDB - ravendb

Question

I am using NodaTime's LocalDate in RavenDB index.
Here is an example of the index:
public class TaskIndex : AbstractIndexCreationTask<ScheduleTask>
{
public TaskIndex()
{
Map = tasks => from task in tasks
select new
{
task.Name,
PlannedStartDate = task.PlannedStartDate.AsLocalDate().Resolve(),
PlannedDueDate = task.PlannedDueDate.AsLocalDate().Resolve()
};
Index(x => x.Name, FieldIndexing.Analyzed);
Store(x => x.Name, FieldStorage.Yes);
TermVector(x => x.Name, FieldTermVector.WithPositionsAndOffsets);
}
}
I installed RavenDB-NodaTime bundle as described here.
Here is a piece of code I use to install index:
var assembly = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.Load(new AssemblyName
{
Name = "cs.Scheduling"
});
var catalog = new AssemblyCatalog(assembly);
var provider = new CompositionContainer(catalog);
var commands = documentStore.DatabaseCommands.ForDatabase(dbName);
IndexCreation.CreateIndexes(provider, commands, documentStore.Conventions);
documentStore is configured with default database, but then I use it to install index to different (tenant) database name of which comes in dbName.
During the installation of the index I got an exception: The name 'NodaTimeField' does not exist in the current context.
I have one default database which is completely different from database I try to install index for. So basically the case is similar to one described here but I am using standalone version of RavenDB server.
I tried to find out how I can do suggested there but was not able to do that:
embeddableDocumentStore.ServerIfEmbedded.Options.DatabaseLandlord.SetupTenantConfiguration += configuration =>
{
configuration.Catalog.Catalogs.Add(new TypeCatalog(typeof(DeleteOnConflict)));
configuration.Catalog.Catalogs.Add(new TypeCatalog(typeof(PutOnConflict)));
};
Version of RavenDB I am using is 2.5.2956.
RavenDB.Client.NodaTime - 2.5.10.
Hope for your help. Thanks.

Answer 1

In my case that was a very silly mistake. When I was installing RavenDB server some time ago I installed it into non-default destination. Later some RavenDB updates were installed into default destination (i.e. \Program Files (x86)\RavenDB). And when I was installing RavenDB-NodaTime bundle I put it into incorrect destination (\Program Files (x86)\RavenDB).
After detecting this issue and configuring RavenDB server in my correct destination properly an error described in the heading has gone away.
Hope this answer can help somebody else.
P.S. Later there was a deserialization error during reading data from db (RavenDB was not aware of how to deserialize date from string in "yyyy-MM-dd" format to LocalDate object) which I fixed by calling store.ConfigureForNodaTime(DateTimeZoneProviders.Tzdb); after store.Initialize(); call as Steven suggested in his answer.

Answer 2

I believe the answer is that your tenant database does not have the bundle "activated" Your database document (under settings in Raven 3) should have something like
"Raven/ActiveBundles": "Encryption;Compression;NodaTime"
Also you must call
store.ConfigureForNodaTime(DateTimeZoneProviders.Tzdb);
I call this after store.Initialize(). Once you do both of these things, you may have to fix existing data by re-saving your documents (not sure if there is another way). New data will be properly stored like '2016-2-3' format which should make your index return data.