I have 3 entities and I want to use them for EF as POCO`s:
TimeTable is the base class for Period and LessonPlanner classes.
How can I use/map these 3 classes with EF 5.0 or higher?
I want to get 2 sql tables created: Period and LessonPlanner.
EF supports only Table per hierarchy or Table per type.
Either I get one table containing all properties as fields OR I get 3 separated tables.
I just want 2 tables whatever approach I have to take I do not care: Database/Model/Code first...
public class TimeTable
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int LessonNumber { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForSunday { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForMonday { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForTuesday { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForWednesday { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForThursday { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForFriday { get; set; }
public string SchoolclassNumberForSaturday { get; set; }
}
public class Period : TimeTable
{
public enum WeekType
{
A,
AB,
}
}
public class LessonPlanner : TimeTable
{
public DateTime LessonDate { get; set; }
}
Using code first in Entity Framework 5, in the DbContext derived class, override OnModelCreating and add the following code. I've not tried it with your types but I've used a variant of this to create two classes for a three deep hierarchy.
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
modelBuilder.Entity<Period>()
.Map<Period>(p => p.MapInheritedProperties())
.ToTable("Period");
modelBuilder.Entity<LessonPlanner>()
.Map<LessonPlanner>(lp => lp.MapInheritedProperties())
.ToTable("LessonPlanner");
}
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I have a .Net Core 2 webapi in which I am using automapper to map to Dtos. Everything works fine, except I am seeing an unexpected behaviour when I map an object to a Dto, and where the Dto also contains mappings for a collection. E.g
CreateMap<Order, OrderDto>();
CreateMap<Product, ProductDto>();
Where classes are like this
public partial class Order
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Product> Products{ get; set; }
public int ProductCount {return Products.Count;}
}
public partial class Product
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int OrderId { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
}
The following works as expected;
The class is mapped, and the ProjectCount is correct in the Dto
public partial class OrderDto
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Product> Products{ get; set; }
public int ProductCount{ get; set; }
}
_context.Orders.Include<>(Products).ProjectTo<>(OrderDto)
But doing the following, the productcount is always zero.
E.g. if I do this;
public partial class OrderDto
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<ProductDto> Products{ get; set; }
public int ProductCount{ get; set; }
}
public partial class ProductDto
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public int OrderId { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
_context.Orders.Include<>(Products).ProjectTo<>(OrderDto)
Why does this happen, and how can I ensure that it doesnt? This is a real world example where I need a property which references the collection - and I need it in both the base and the Dto. I can do the following which works fine, but it doesnt appear that this should be how it works...
public partial class OrderDto
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<ProductDto> Products{ get; set; }
public int ProductCount {return Products.Count;}
}
public partial class ProductDto
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
_context.Orders.Include<>(Products).ProjectTo<>(OrderDto)
I profiled the SQL and found that Automapper changes the way the query is formed. Without the nested projection, two queries are made;
[Queries are more complex than this and use joins, but you get the idea]
Select Id from orders
Select Id,Name from products where productid in [select id from orders ]
With the nested projection, are executed for each nested Dto
Select Id from orders
Select Id,Name from products where id=1
Select Id,Name from products where id=2
I am trying to implement DbContext for couple of tables called 'Employee' and 'Department'
Relationship between Employee and Department is many to one. i.e. department can have many employees.
Below are the EntityFramework classes I designed ( CodeFirst approach )
[Table("Employee")]
public class Employee
{
[DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int Id { get; set; }
[Column("Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[Column("Department_ID")]
public int Department_ID { get; set; }
public virtual Department Department { get; set; }
}
[Table("Department")]
public class Department
{
[DatabaseGenerated(DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int ID { get; set; }
[Column("Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
}
While adding Employee record I am getting below exception
"Invalid column name 'Department_ID1'."
I am not sure why EF is referring to Department_ID1. Do I need to add configuration in OnModelCreating method of DbContext?
I am using EF version 6.1.1
I've also gotten this problem in my EF one-many deals where the one has a List of the many property and my mapping didn't specify that property. For example take:
public class Notification
{
public long ID { get; set; }
public IList<NotificationRecipient> Recipients { get; set; }
}
then
public class NotificationRecipient
{
public long ID { get; set; }
public long NotificationID { get; set; }
public Notification Notification { get; set; }
}
Then in my mapping, the way that caused the Exception (the incorrect way):
builder.HasOne(x => x.Notification).WithMany()
.HasForeignKey(x => x.NotificationID);
What fixed it (the correct way) was specifying the WithMany property:
builder.HasOne(x => x.Notification).WithMany(x => x.Recipients)
.HasForeignKey(x => x.NotificationID);
Hi After spending some time I could fix this problem by using ForeignKey attribute on public virtual Department Department { get; set; } property of Employee class.
Please see below code.
[Table("Employee")]
public class Employee
{
[DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int Id { get; set; }
[Column("Name")]
public string Name { get; set; }
[Column("Department_ID")]
public int Department_ID { get; set; }
[ForeignKey("Department_ID")]
public virtual Department Department { get; set; }
}
This fixed my problem. Are there any other solution to fix this? Using fluent API?
For me, the issue was resolved by removing a (duplicate?) virtual property.
Using the OP's example:
public class Employee
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Department_ID { get; set; }
public virtual Department Department { get; set; }
}
public class Department
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
}
Turns into:
public class Employee
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Department_ID { get; set; }
}
public class Department
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
}
In my case I added a virtual property on top of the auto generated property
I fixed it by adding the NotMapped attribute to my property, or you could configure with fluent api
public partial class Control
{
[NotMapped]
public virtual ICollection<Control> Children { get => this.InverseParent; set => this.InverseParent = value; }
}
I had the same error, my issue was the FK was a long but I had it as an int in the model. EF generated a new column because it didn't match types on the FK so it assumed they weren't the same and went ahead with making another one but putting 1 at the end because there was already one with the proper name. Making sure the types matched resolved the issue for me.
This can be fixed simply by putting [NotMapped] annotation on your virtual properties.
public class Employee
{
[ForeignKey("Department")]
public int Department_ID
[NotMapped]
public virtual Department Department { get; set; }
}
And in you modelBuilder:
modelBuilder.Entity<Employee>(entity =>
{
entity.HasOne(e => e.Department);
});
Just flip this around if you want to call by Department.
We use the [NotMapped] annotation so that EF Core will disregard it when looking at your database.
Given the following example POCOS:
public class Order
{
[AutoIncrement]
public int Id { get; set; }
...
[Reference]
public List<Item> Items { get; set; }
}
public class Item
{
[AutoIncrement]
public int Id { get; set; }
....
}
Is there a way to select a set of Orders and include their related items? Akin to a .include() in Entity Framework.
In terms of Service Stack API, a multi-entity version of LoadSingleById() which does eagerly load referenced fields.
I have the following in my domain classes ( simplified )
public enum JobType
{
SalesOrder = 1,
StockOrder = 2
}
public class SalesOrder : LoggedEntity
{
public string Name { get; set; } // and other fields
}
public class StockOrder : LoggedEntity
{
public string Name { get; set; } // and other fields
}
public class Job : LoggedEntity
{
public int JobType { get; set; } // jobtype enum
public virtual LoggedEntity LinkedEntity { get; set; }
}
My context is as follows;
public class Context : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Job> Jobs { get; set; }
public DbSet<StockOrder> StockOrders { get; set; }
public DbSet<SalesOrder> SalesOrders { get; set; }
}
When I run the migration i get the error described [here][1] So using an abstract entity appears not to work.
My question was, how do I create a navigation property that can navigate to more than one entity type?
If JobType = SalesOrder then I want to navigate to sales order, if JobType = StockOrder then I want to navigate to stock order.
I wanted to use a Table Per Heirarchy Strategy [see TPH here][2]
The trick is to keep EF oblivious of the LoggedEntity class. Remodel your entities according to this example:
public enum JobType
{
SalesOrder = 1,
StockOrder = 2
}
public abstract class LoggedEntity
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; } // and other fields
}
public abstract class BaseOrder : LoggedEntity // New base class for orders!!
{ }
public class SalesOrder : BaseOrder
{ }
public class StockOrder : BaseOrder
{ }
public class Job : LoggedEntity
{
public JobType JobType { get; set; } // jobtype enum
public virtual BaseOrder Order { get; set; }
}
public class Tph2Context : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Job> Jobs { get; set; }
public DbSet<BaseOrder> Orders { get; set; }
}
You will see that the migration creates two tables, Jobs and BaseOrders (name to be improved). Job now has a property Order that can either be a SalesOrder or a StockOrder.
You can query specific Order types by
contex.Orders.OfType<StockOrder>()
And you will notice that EF doesn't know LoggedEntity, because
context.Set<LoggedEntity>()
will throw an exception
The entity type LoggedEntity is not part of the model for the current context.
how do I create a navigation property that can navigate
to more than one entity type?
You cannot do so. atleast not now. navigational properties are way of describing relationship between entities. at most, they represent, some sort of sql relationship. so you cannot alter or define such a relationship on the fly. you have to define it before hand.
Now in order to do that, you have to define separate navigational property for your separate conditions i.e.
public class Job : LoggedEntity
{
public int JobTypeSales { get; set; }
public int JobTypeStock { get; set; }
public virtual SalesOrder SalesOrder { get; set; }
public virtual StockOrder StockOrder { get; set; }
}
and then link them in configuration in modelbuilder through fluent API.
HasRequired(s => s.SalesOrder)
.WithMany()
.HasForeignKey(s => s.JobTypeSales).WillCascadeOnDelete(true);
HasRequired(s => s.StockOrder)
.WithMany()
.HasForeignKey(s => s.JobTypeStock).WillCascadeOnDelete(true);
and
as for your error "Sequence Contains No Elements"
this error comes, when the Linq query that you specified, is using either .First() or .Single(), or .ToList() and query returned no data.
so to avoid it use, .FirstOrDefault() or SingleOrDefault().
obviously with proper null check.
I have a flat domain class like this:
public class ProductDomain
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Manufacturer { get; set; }
public string Model { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
public string Price { get; set; }
}
I have two DTO classes like this:
public class ProductInfoDTO
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Manufacturer { get; set; }
public string Model{ get; set; }
}
public class ProductDTO : ProductInfoDTO
{
public string Description { get; set; }
public string Price { get; set; }
}
Now the problem is:
Scenario #1:
Mapper.CreateMap<ProductDomain, ProductInfoDTO>() // this mapping works fine
Scenario #2:
Mapper.CreateMap<ProductDomain, ProductDTO>() // this mapping is not working and throws System.TypeInitializationException
So my question is how to create mapping between ProductDomain and ProductDTO (which inherits ProductInfoDTO) without breaking the definition of both source and destination classes. Also I dont want to introduce any new inheritance for the domain class ProductDomain.
Thanks
You can build your own custom TypeConverter like this
public class ProductDomainToProductDTOConverter : ITypeConverter<ProductDomain, ProductDTO>
{
public ProductDTO Convert(ProductDomain source)
{
ProductDTO product = new ProductDTO();
product.Price = source.Price;
...
return product;
}
}
And then create a map with your custom TypeConverter like this
Mapper.CreateMap<ProductDomain, ProductDTO>().ConvertUsing<ProductDomainToProductDTOConverter>();