I understand stored procedures mapping is not supported by my understanding is that I should be able to call stored procedures.
I have quite a few complex stored procedures and with the designer I could create a complex type and I was all good.
Now in code first let's suppose I have the following stored procedure, just put together something silly to give an idea. I want to return a student with 1 address.
In code I have A Student and Address Entity. But no StudentAddressEntity as it's a link table.
I have tried the following but I get an error
Incorrect syntax near '."}
System.Data.Common.DbException {System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException}
ALTER Procedure [dbo].[GetStudentById]
#StudentID int
AS
SELECT *
FROM Student S
left join StudentAddress SA on S.Studentid = sa.studentid
left join Address A on SA.AddressID = A.AddressID
where S.StudentID = #StudentID
C# code:
using (var ctx = new SchoolContext())
{
var student = ctx.Database.SqlQuery<Student>("GetStudentById,#StudentID",
new SqlParameter("StudentID", id));
}
Any examples out there how to call sp and fill a complexType in code first, using out parameters etc.. Can I hook into ADO.NET?
Trying just an SP that returns all students with no parameters I get this error
System.SystemException = Cannot create a value for property
'StudentAddress' of type
'CodeFirstPrototype.Dal.Address'. Only
properties with primitive types are
supported.
Is it because I have in a way ignore the link table?
Any suggestions?
I believe that your exception actually is:
Incorrect syntax near ','.
because this is invalid statement: "GetStudentById,#StudentID". It should be without comma: "GetStudentById #StudentID".
The problem with stored procedures in EF is that they don't support loading navigation properties. EF will materialize only the main entity and navigation properties will not be loaded. This is solved for example by EFExtensions. EFExtensions are for ObjectContext API so you will have to check if it is also usable for DbContext API.
Using EFExtentions it will look something like
using (var context = new SchoolContext())
{
var command = context.CreateStoreCommand("GetStudentById", CommandType.StoredProcedure,
new SqlParameter("StudentID", id));
using (command.Connection.CreateConnectionScope())
using (var reader = command.ExecuteReader())
{
// use the reader to read the data
// my recommendation is to create a Materializer using EFExtensions see
// http://blogs.msdn.com/b/meek/archive/2008/03/26/ado-entity-framework-stored-procedure-customization.aspx
// ex
var student = Student.Materializer.Materialize(reader).SingleOrDefault();
return student;
}
}
Related
Is it possible with Entity Framework code-first approach to map already created stored procedures?
For example I have a complex stored procedure and I want to map it with code first approach.
I will run the script for creating stored procedure using migration so the procedure will always available but how to map it with code first approach?
AFAIK, there's no built-in support to map the stored procedure in code-first. You have to manually call the procedure though you can map the results of the procedure using ObjectContext's Translate method.
E.g.
using (var db = new BloggingContext())
{
// If using Code First we need to make sure the model is built before we open the connection
// This isn't required for models created with the EF Designer
db.Database.Initialize(force: false);
// Create a SQL command to execute the sproc
var cmd = db.Database.Connection.CreateCommand();
cmd.CommandText = "[dbo].[GetAllBlogsAndPosts]";
try
{
db.Database.Connection.Open();
// Run the sproc
var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
// Read Blogs from the first result set
var blogs = ((IObjectContextAdapter)db)
.ObjectContext
.Translate<Blog>(reader, "Blogs", MergeOption.AppendOnly);
foreach (var item in blogs)
{
Console.WriteLine(item.Name);
}
// Move to second result set and read Posts
reader.NextResult();
var posts = ((IObjectContextAdapter)db)
.ObjectContext
.Translate<Post>(reader, "Posts", MergeOption.AppendOnly);
foreach (var item in posts)
{
Console.WriteLine(item.Title);
}
}
finally
{
db.Database.Connection.Close();
}
}
You can also map the stored procedure that returns more complex type, if you're using an .EDMX file. See this MSDN article for more details.
Note: you can add T4 template to add the custom mapping to add the custom stored procedure mapping every time the .EDMX is generated.
I"m using VS 2010 & EF 3.5. I've imported a stored procedure which returns a list of guids using the Function Import feature. How do I invoke it in my code? After instantiating the dbcontext, intellisense doesn't display the procedure I've imported. I know it's pretty easy in EF 4.0 but I'm stuck with EF 3.5 for this project. Any ideas on how get around this other than doing it the old-fashioned way?
I don't think EF versions prior to 4 can use imported stored procedures that don't return entities. That is, your stored procedure must return a complete entity object in order for EF to use it. Since your procedure only returns a list of GUIDs, EF doesn't know how to use it.
You can put this in your partial data-context class to call the procedure:
public IEnumerable<Guid> GetMyGUIDs()
{
if (this.Connection.State != System.Data.ConnectionState.Open)
this.Connection.Open();
var command = new System.Data.EntityClient.EntityCommand
{
CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure,
CommandText = #"YourContext.YourProcedureName",
Connection = (System.Data.EntityClient.EntityConnection)this.Connection
};
var list = new List<Guid>();
using (var reader = command.ExecuteReader())
{
// get GUID values from the reader here,
// and put them in the list
reader.Close();
}
return list;
}
I'm currently planning on switching my "manual query-writing" code to a nice SQL framework, so I can leave the queries or sql things to the framework, instead of writing the queries myself.
Now I'm wondering how I can get a single record from my table in Entity Framework 4?
I've primarily used SQL like SELECT * FROM {0} WHERE Id = {1}. That doesn't work in EF4, as far as I'm concerned.
Is there a way I can select a single ID-Based record from my Context?
Something like:
public Address GetAddress(int addressId)
{
var result = from Context.Addresses where Address.Id = addressId;
Address adr = result as Address;
return Address;
}
Thank you!
var address = Context.Addresses.First(a => a.Id == addressId);
You can use Single or First methods.
The difference between those methods is that Single expects a single row and throws an exception if it doesn't have a single row.
The usage is the same for both of them
(Based on VS 2015) If you create an .edmx (Add --> ADO.NET Entity Data Model).
Go through the steps to created the ".edmx" and use the following to run the stored procedure. emailAddress is the parameter you are passing to the stored procedure g_getLoginStatus. This will pull the first row into LoginStatus and status is a column in the database:
bool verasity = false;
DBNameEntities db = new DBNameEntities(); // Use name of your DBEntities
var LoginStatus = db.g_getLoginStatus(emailAddress).FirstOrDefault();
if ((LoginStatus != null) && (LoginStatus.status == 1))
{
verasity = true;
}
I have the following code snippet.
// Here I get an entity out of an EntityCollection<TEntity> i.e ContactSet. Entity is obtained and not null.
ProjectContact obj = ((Project)projectDataGrid.SelectedItem).ContactSet
.Where(projectContact => projectContact.ProjectId == item.ProjectId &&
projectContact.ContactId == item.ContactId).First();
// And the next line I just check whether ContactSet contains the queried entity that i.e. obj.
bool found = ((Project)projectDataGrid.SelectedItem).ContactSet.Contains(obj);
but found is always false. How can that be?
edit: Matt thank you for your guidance but let me make it a bit more clear since I haven't given out the full source code.
I have three tables in my database:
Project, Contact and ProjectContact and there's a many-to-many relationship between Project and Contact table through the ProjectContact table, although ProjectContact table has some extra columns other than Project and Contact table keys, and that's why I get an extra entity called ProjectContact if I use ADO.NET entity framework's entity designer generated code.
Now at some point I get a Project instance within my code by using a linq to entities query i.e:
var item = (from project in myObjectContext.Project.Include("ContactSet.Contact")
orderby project.Name select project).FirstOrDefault();
Note that ContactSet is the navigational property of Project to ProjectContact table and Contact is the navigational property of ProjectContact to Contact table.
Moreover the queried Project in question i.e. "item" has already some ProjectContacts in its item.ContactSet entity collection, and ContactSet is a standard EntityCollection implementation generated by entity designer.
On the other hand, ProjectContact overrides Equals() and GetHashCode() etc. but if I use that overriden implementation within an EqualityComparer then Project.ContactSet.Contains returns true so I'm guessing there's no problem with that but now the tricky part comes along. Assume that I have the following snippet:
using(SomeObjectContext myObjectContext = new SomeObjectContext())
{
var projectQueryable = from project in myObjectContext.Project.Include("ContactSet.Contact") orderby project.Name select project;
ObservableCollection<Project> projects = new ObservableCollection<Project>(projectQueryable.ToList());
var contactQueryable = from contact in myObjectContext.Contact select contact;
ObservableCollection<Contact> contacts = new ObservableCollection<Contact>(contactQueryable.ToList());
Project p = projects[0];
Contact c = contacts[0];
//Now if I execute the code below it fails.
ProjectContact projectContact = new ProjectContact();
projectContact.Contact = c;
projectContact.Project = p;
projectContact.ContactId = c.Id;
projectContact.ProjectId = p.Id;
projectContact.Role = ContactRole.Administrator; // This corresponds to the column in ProjectContact table and I do manual conversion within the partial class since EF doesn't support enums yet.
p.ContactSet.Add(projectContact); // This line might be unnecessary but just to be on the safe side.
// So now p.ContactSet does indeed contain the projectContact and projectContact's EntityState is Added as expected. But when I execute the line below without saving changes it fails.
bool result = p.ContactSet.Remove(projectContact); // result == false and projectContact is still in the p.ContactSet EntityCollection.
//Now if I execute the line below
myObjectContext.Delete(projectContact);
//Now projectContact's EntityState becomes Detached but it's still in p.ContactSet.
// Also note that if I test
bool exists = p.ContactSet.Contains(projectContact);
// It also returns false even if I query the item with p.ProjectContact.Where(...) it returns false.
}
Since everything occurs within the same ObjectContext I think I am missing something about EntityCollection.Remove(). But it seems still odd that ContactSet.Contains() returns false for an item obtained via direct Where query over ContactSet. In the end the question becomes:
How do you really Remove an item from an EntityCollection without persisting to the database first. Since a Remove() call after Add() apparently fails.
This looks like it should work, Some ideas:
Does ProjectContact override Object.Equals()? Or perhaps the ContactSet implements ICollection, and there may be a bug in the implementation of ICollection.Contains()?
I'm having problems querying the entity model to get additional information.
My db has a Program table with a one to many relation with an Events table. The Entity model generates the relationships just fine, but I'm unable to figure out how to query the model to get the progam object with its events.
I can do this:
var foo = from program in entities.ProgramSet
where program.StartDate > DateTime.now
orderby program.StartDate
select program;
No problems there. From what I've found on Microsofts Page (Shaping queries with Entity framework): msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896272.aspx, if I wanted to get the child objects, I just do the following:
// Define a LINQ query with a path that returns
// orders and items for a contact.
var contacts = (from contact in context.Contact
.Include("SalesOrderHeader.SalesOrderDetail")
select contact).FirstOrDefault();
However, there is no .Include or Include that I can find on the query.
Any suggestion? I know that I can do a foreach across the results, then run a .Events.Load() on it, but doesn't that force the IQueriable result to execute the sql, instead of optomize it to run only when a .ToList() etc is called on it?
Here is some sample code from my project:
public class ProgramRepository : CT.Models.IProgramRepository
{
CTEntities db = new CTEntities();
public IQueryable<Program> FindAllPrograms()
{
return db.ProgramSet;
}
public IQueryable<Program> FindUpcomingPrograms()
{
var programs = from program in FindAllPrograms()
where program.StartDate > DateTime.Now
orderby program.StartDate
select program;
return programs;
}
With the FindUpComingPrograms I would like to have it also include the Events Data. There is a relationship between the Program and Events model. Program has a List<Events> property, that I would like to fill and return with the IQueryable method.
Thanks again!
The Include Function is part of the ObjectQuery object...
I think you are going to need to re-write your query to look something like this:
var contacts = context.Contact.Include("SalesOrderHeader.SalesOrderDetail").FirstOrDefault();
//Not sure on your dot path you might have to debug that a bit
Here is an Article that has some examples...