Can IF-Match be used to conditionally update a property, not ETAG?

Question

In Azure Table, can I use the IF-Match tag when Merging to conditionally update a value on something other than ETAG?

Specifically, suppose I have an object like this

public class Person : TableServiceEntity
{
public string Name {get;set;}
public string Age {get;set}

public DateTime LockDate {get;set;}

}

Suppose I want to merge or update the object conditionally on the presence or comparison of the "lock date" value. Is this possible in Azure?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '12 at 17:09

2

No.

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answered Oct 06 '12 at 17:09

user94559

A better question is, how to I extract an ETAG from a record so I can use it again when I update it using a different DataContext. – makerofthings7 Oct 06 '12 at 17:18
I asked this very question 2+ years ago and never received a response from anyone. Any tips are appreciated: http://stackoverflow.com/q/3746108/328397 – makerofthings7 Oct 06 '12 at 17:21

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