Entity Framework Code First Self Referencing Parent Child with Payload - entity-framework

Question

I'm attempting to set this up using code first in entity framework and am running into difficulty. To describe what i'm trying to accomplish:
Have an entity of Product. This product optionally may have one or more related "child" products. A product can be the child to one or more parent products.
when I go to generate a controller tied to the model class "Product", i'm getting an error: (updated, more specific, matches code below)
There was an error running the selected code generator:
'Unable to retrieve metadata for 'ProductCatalog.Models.Product'.
Multiple object sets per type are not supported. The object sets
'Product' and 'Products' can both contain instances of type
'ProductCatalog.Models.Product'.
here's the not working model class:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
using System.Data.Entity;
namespace ProductCatalog.Models
{
// Product
public class Product
{
[Key]
public int ProductId { get; set; } // ProductID (Primary key)
public string ProductName { get; set; } // ProductName
public string ProductSku { get; set; } // ProductSKU
public int BaseQuantity { get; set; } // BaseQuantity
public decimal BaseCost { get; set; } // BaseCost
// Reverse navigation
public virtual ICollection<RelatedProduct> ParentProducts { get; set; } // RelatedProduct.FK_RelatedProductChildID
public virtual ICollection<RelatedProduct> ChildProducts { get; set; } // RelatedProduct.FK_RelatedProductParentID
public virtual ICollection<RelatedProduct> RelatedProducts { get; set; }
}
// RelatedProduct
public class RelatedProduct
{
[Key, Column(Order = 0)]
public int ParentId { get; set; } // ParentID
[Key, Column(Order = 1)]
public int ChildId { get; set; } // ChildID
public int Quantity { get; set; } // Quantity
public bool Required { get; set; } // Required
public bool Locked { get; set; } // Locked
// Foreign keys
public virtual Product ParentProduct { get; set; } // FK_RelatedProductParentID
public virtual Product ChildProduct { get; set; } // FK_RelatedProductChildID
}
public class ProductDBContext : DbContext
{
public IDbSet<Product> Product { get; set; } // Product
public IDbSet<RelatedProduct> RelatedProduct { get; set; } // RelatedProduct
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedProduct>()
.HasRequired(a => a.ParentProduct)
.WithMany(b => b.ChildProducts)
.HasForeignKey(c => c.ParentId) // FK_RelatedProductParentID
.WillCascadeOnDelete(false);
modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedProduct>()
.HasRequired(a => a.ChildProduct)
.WithMany(b => b.ParentProducts)
.HasForeignKey(c => c.ChildId); // FK_RelatedProductChildID
}
}
}

Answer 1

fixed by pluralizing the DbSets
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
using System.Data.Entity;
namespace ProductCatalog.Models
{
// Product
public class Product
{
[Key]
public int ProductId { get; set; } // ProductID (Primary key)
public string ProductName { get; set; } // ProductName
public string ProductSku { get; set; } // ProductSKU
public int BaseQuantity { get; set; } // BaseQuantity
public decimal BaseCost { get; set; } // BaseCost
// Reverse navigation
public virtual ICollection<RelatedProduct> ParentProducts { get; set; } // RelatedProduct.FK_RelatedProductChildID
public virtual ICollection<RelatedProduct> ChildProducts { get; set; } // RelatedProduct.FK_RelatedProductParentID
public virtual ICollection<RelatedProduct> RelatedProducts { get; set; }
}
// RelatedProduct
public class RelatedProduct
{
[Key, Column(Order = 0)]
public int ParentId { get; set; } // ParentID
[Key, Column(Order = 1)]
public int ChildId { get; set; } // ChildID
public int Quantity { get; set; } // Quantity
public bool Required { get; set; } // Required
public bool Locked { get; set; } // Locked
// Foreign keys
public virtual Product ParentProduct { get; set; } // FK_RelatedProductParentID
public virtual Product ChildProduct { get; set; } // FK_RelatedProductChildID
}
public class ProductDBContext : DbContext
{
public IDbSet<Product> Products { get; set; } // Product
public IDbSet<RelatedProduct> RelatedProducts { get; set; } // RelatedProduct
protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedProduct>()
.HasRequired(a => a.ParentProduct)
.WithMany(b => b.ChildProducts)
.HasForeignKey(c => c.ParentId) // FK_RelatedProductParentID
.WillCascadeOnDelete(false);
modelBuilder.Entity<RelatedProduct>()
.HasRequired(a => a.ChildProduct)
.WithMany(b => b.ParentProducts)
.HasForeignKey(c => c.ChildId); // FK_RelatedProductChildID
}
}
}