C# Save String To Database As Geometry

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Right now we are getting the geometry data as a string, and we need to save it to our SQL DB as a Geometry type.

Currently, I'm trying to do something that looks like this

String shape = "POLYGON((0 0, 150 0, 150 150, 0 150, 0 0))" ;
String insertSQL = "INSERT INTO x (shape) values (@shape)";

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(insertSql, sqlConnection);
cmd.CommandType = System.Data.Text;

cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@shape", "geometry::Parse("+shape+")");

cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

Every time the query executes I get an error:

{"A .NET Framework error occurred during execution of user-defined routine or aggregate "geometry":

System.FormatException: 24114: The label geometry::Parse('POL in the input well-known text (WKT) is not valid. Valid labels are POINT, LINESTRING, POLYGON, MULTIPOINT, MULTILINESTRING, MULTIPOLYGON, GEOMETRYCOLLECTION, CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE, CURVEPOLYGON and FULLGLOBE (geography Data Type only).

System.FormatException:

at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.OpenGisTypes.ParseLabel(String input) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.WellKnownTextReader.ParseTaggedText(OpenGisType type) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.WellKnownTextReader.Read(OpenGisType type, Int32 srid) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeometry.GeometryFromText(OpenGisType type, SqlChars text, Int32 srid) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeometry.Parse(SqlString s).

The statement has been terminated."}

Is there a way to accomplish this natively without importing the SQL SERVER Types package? Or is the only way to achieve this to include the Nuget package and go from there?

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1 Answers

Parameters in SQL queries are used to prevent SQL injection - that means nothing you include in a parameter to your query will be treated as anything other than data, it won't be evaluated, so geometry::Parse will not run. Try something like this:

String shape = "POLYGON((0 0, 150 0, 150 150, 0 150, 0 0))" ;
String insertSQL = "INSERT INTO x (shape) values (geometry::Parse(@shape))";

SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(insertSql, sqlConnection);
cmd.CommandType = System.Data.Text;

cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@shape", shape);

cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
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