let's say I have
public class EFObject
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int NavId { get; set; }
public NavObject Nav { get; set; }
}
public class DTOObject
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int NavId { get; set; }
public string NavName { get; set; }
}
My expectation was high, and I thought to my self the built-in flattening should handle this, so my mapping is very simple
CreateMap<DTOObject, EFObject>().ReverseMap();
Unfortunately, converting DTOObject to EFObject does not work as expected because EFObject.Nav is null. Since I used the name NavId and NavName I would expect it to create a new NavObject and set the Nav.Id and Nav.Name accordingly.
My Problem : Is there a feature in Automapper that will allow me to achieve the intended result without having to manually write a rule to create an NavObject when mapping the Nav property?.
Unflattening is only configured for ReverseMap. If you want unflattening, you must configure Entity -> Dto then call ReverseMap to create an unflattening type map configuration from the Dto -> Entity.
as noted by Automapper documentation here
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When I add a type to AutoQuery, with:
[Route("/templates")]
public class SearchTemplates : QueryDb<Template>
{
public int? Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
then I can query this object by Id or Name (or whatever other attributes I would add, that the POCO Template has). However it always returns list of items.
It's very useful to be able to GET a single item (not a search result).
This is how I do it:
[Route("/template/{Id}","GET")]
public class SingleTemplate : IReturn<Template>
{
public int Id { get; set; }
}
public Template Get(SingleTemplate request)
{
return Db.LoadSingleById<Template>(request.Id);
}
With all the new AutoQuery and AutoCRUD, it seems to me that the "return a single item by its URL" could also be automatic?
No, All AutoQuery QueryDb<T> services return the same fixed QueryResponse Response DTO as per its Service Contract, i.e:
public abstract class QueryDb<T>
: QueryBase, IQueryDb<T>, IReturn<QueryResponse<T>> { }
public abstract class QueryDb<From, Into>
: QueryBase, IQueryDb<From, Into>, IReturn<QueryResponse<Into>> { }
public class QueryResponse<T> : IQueryResponse
{
public virtual int Offset { get; set; }
public virtual int Total { get; set; }
public virtual List<T> Results { get; set; }
public virtual Dictionary<string, string> Meta { get; set; }
public virtual ResponseStatus ResponseStatus { get; set; }
}
A single result would still populate the Results property, so the JSON wire format would look like:
{ "results":[ {/*Template*/} ] }
You could create your own Custom AutoQuery Implementation that utilizes AutoQuery's IAutoQueryDb API to return your own custom populated DTO but then your Request DTO should NOT inherit from QueryDb<T> as not returning a QueryResponse<T> would break the explicit Service contract of the Request DTO (and all clients expecting it), i.e. you would instead just create a normal ServiceStack Service returning your own custom Response Type.
Well, in ServiceStack
where can I read up on the merits and differences of
[References(typeof(ABC))] and
[ForeignKey(typeof(XYZ) ]
What are they used for ? (I know, rather naively put but I have a hard time finding the basic description)
The docs for both are referenced throughout ServiceStack.OrmLite project page.
Use either for simple Foreign Keys
Essentially they're both equivalent to define simple Foreign Keys which you can use either for:
[References(typeof(ForeignKeyTable1))]
public int SimpleForeignKey { get; set; }
[ForeignKey(typeof(ForeignKeyTable1))]
public int SimpleForeignKey { get; set; }
The [References] attribute is also used by other data persistence libraries like PocoDynamo for DynamoDb where it would be preferred when wanting to re-use your existing data models else where, it's also useful as a benign "marker" attribute on different models when you want to include a navigable reference to an associated type for the property.
Fine-grained Foreign Key options
The [ForeignKey] is specific to OrmLite and includes additional fine-grained options for defining foreign key relationships specific to RDBMS's like different cascading options, e.g:
public class TableWithAllCascadeOptions
{
[AutoIncrement] public int Id { get; set; }
[ForeignKey(typeof(ForeignKeyTable1))]
public int SimpleForeignKey { get; set; }
[ForeignKey(typeof(ForeignKeyTable2), OnDelete = "CASCADE", OnUpdate = "CASCADE")]
public int? CascadeOnUpdateOrDelete { get; set; }
[ForeignKey(typeof(ForeignKeyTable3), OnDelete = "NO ACTION")]
public int? NoActionOnCascade { get; set; }
[Default(typeof(int), "17")]
[ForeignKey(typeof(ForeignKeyTable4), OnDelete = "SET DEFAULT")]
public int SetToDefaultValueOnDelete { get; set; }
[ForeignKey(typeof(ForeignKeyTable5), OnDelete = "SET NULL")]
public int? SetToNullOnDelete { get; set; }
}
I am using these classes:
public class MasteryPages
{
internal MasteryPages() { }
[JsonProperty("pages")]
public List<MasteryPage> Pages { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("summonerId")]
public long SummonerId { get; set; }
}
[Serializable]
public class MasteryPage
{
internal MasteryPage() { }
[JsonProperty("current")]
public bool Current { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("id")]
public long Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("talents")]
public List<Talent> Talents { get; set; }
}
[Serializable]
public class Talent
{
internal Talent() { }
[JsonProperty("id")]
public int Id { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("rank")]
public int Rank { get; set; }
}
This is the code I'm using to deserialise the object
//MASTERIES
var jsonMasteries = requester.CreateRequest(string.Format(RootUrl, Region) + string.Format(MasteriesUrl, summonerId));
var objAllMasteryPages = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MasteryPages>(jsonMasteries);
The jsonMasteries object is correctly serialized and gives me this:
http://pastebin.com/3dkdDHdx (Rather large, to view easily: go to http://www.jsoneditoronline.org/ and paste it)
The second line is giving me troubles however. Normally my object should be filled with the data. It unfortunately isn't and I have no idea what's wrong.
Anyone could help me out?
Your problem is in this part of serialized JSON: "42177333": { ... }
As I understand - this is some kind of ID and it's dynamic.
Possible solutions are:
One of possible resolutions is here: C# deserialize dynamic JSON
Cut this part of dynamic JSON.
Try to modify the serialization stuff to avoid this dynamic ID.
Thanks to sleepwalker I saw what was wrong. (Dynamic Id (number), first line)
Now, the James Newtonking JSON library has a solution for dynamic id's like this.
I edited my code to this:
var jsonMasteries = requester.CreateRequest(string.Format(RootUrl, Region) + string.Format(MasteriesUrl, summonerId));
var objAllMasteriePages = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<long, MasteryPages>>(jsonMasteries).Values.FirstOrDefault().Pages;
(First line stays the same, the magic is in the second line)
Now, i use a dictionary with the key being my given Id, and my custom class.
This works wonders
I am trying to serialize an object to Azure Mobile Services.
The object contains an array of a second object which should also be serialized.
[DataContract()]
class ObjectA
{
[DataMember(Name= "id")]
public int Id { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "info")]
public string info{ get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "collectionOfB")]
public ObjectB[] myArrayOfB{ get; set; }
}
[DataContract()]
class ObjectB
{
[DataMember(Name= "id")]
public int Id { get; set; }
[DataMember(Name = "info")]
public string info{ get; set; }
}
I have loaded both table's properly and can insert an individual item into each of the tables.
However when I call the InsertAsync method on the table for objectA I receive an error
Cannot serialize member 'myArrayOfB' of type 'namespace.ObjectB[]' declared on type 'ObjectA'
Any idea's on what I need to do to fix this?
Mobile Services doesn't support serialization of arrays. There are two good posts here that show how you might support this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2012/08/30/supporting-arbitrary-types-in-azure-mobile-services-managed-client-simple-types.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2012/09/11/supporting-complex-types-in-azure-mobile-services-clients-implementing-1-n-table-relationships.aspx
There seems to be hardly any examples out there so here goes:
Here are my three structures but it doesn't seem to create the tables properly and when I call the following line it says Id is not recognised:
IEnumerable<Permission> permissions = _data.Find<RolePermission>(x => x.Role.RoleKey == roleKey).Select(x => x.Permission);
RolePermission:
public class RolePermission
{
[SubSonicPrimaryKey]
public int RolePermissionId { get; set; }
public int RoleId { get; set; }
public int PermissionId { get; set; }
//Foreign Key of Role
public Role Role { get; set; }
//Foreign key of Permission
public Permission Permission { get; set; }
}
Permission:
public class Permission
{
[SubSonicPrimaryKey]
public int Id { get; set; }
[SubSonicLongString]
public string PermissionKey { get; set; }
[SubSonicLongString]
public string PermissionDescription { get; set; }
}
Role:
public class Role
{
[SubSonicPrimaryKey]
public int Id { get; set; }
[SubSonicLongString]
public string RoleKey { get; set; }
[SubSonicLongString]
public string RoleDescription { get; set; }
}
I don't know if this has been fixed in a current release but I remember a silly bug in subsonic's primary key detection.
If your Object contains a property named Id subsonic assumes that is your primary key.
If not you have to tell subsonic with is your PK by decorating a property with the SubSonicPrimaryKey attribute (like you did).
If you have a property called Id and it is also decorated with the attribute (like your Role and Permission class) subsonic finds the property twice and does not check if they both equals. Then it throws an exception because it can't reliably determine which one to take.
Long story short, you should try:
a) Remove the Attribute from your Id column
b) Rename the property to RoleId or PermissionId (which would be more consistend because your RolePermission class has it's PK called RolePermissionId)
If that doesn't help, please provide a stacktrace.