How do I query using Ling to Entities.
I want to get back the total number of rows for a specific user.
I created a table with an ID(PK), Username, and PhoneNumber.
In my controller, I am able to do this and see my entities:
public ActionResult UserInfo()
{
using (UserInfoEntities db = new UserInfoEntities())
{
}
return View();
}
How do I query to return the total number of rows and declare it to a variable (totalrows) so that I can do thge following:
ViewData["TotalRows"] = totalrows
If there is a better way I am open to suggestions...
Thanks!!
Probably something like:
int count = db.SomeTable.Where(r => r.Username.Equals("username")).Count();
Yep Matthew is right. The count method does exactly what you need! Although, I would recommend looking at ViewModels to pass your data to your view (rather than ViewData) and some kind of DAL pattern, such as the repository pattern, for querying your entities.
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I would like to know what happens when I use IQueryable with and without AsQueryable(). Here is an example:
public partial class Book
{
.......
public Nullable<System.DateTime> CheckoutDate{get; set;}
}
I need to filter the data from SQL server before it is returned to an application server. I need to return books checked out more recently than entered date. Which one should I use?
A.
IQueryable<Book> books = db.Books;
books = books.Where(b => b.CheckoutDate >= date);
B.
IQueryable<Book> books = db.Books.ToList().AsQueryable();
books = books.Where(b => b.CheckoutDate >= date);
Basically I would like to know what is the difference between the above two options. Do they work on the similar grounds? Do they return same values?
With B option, you're basically retrieving every book from database and filtering data in memory.
A option is more performance, as it filters data at the database and return only the rows that match your query.
I have a method:
public List<Timetable> getTimetableTableForRegion(String id) {
List<Timetable> timetables;
TypedQuery<Timetable> query = em_read.createQuery("SELECT ..stuff.. where R.id = :id", Timetable.class).setParameter("id", Long.parseLong(id));
timetables = query.getResultList();
return timetables;
}
which returns this:
so, what am I missing in order to return a list of Timetable's?
ok, so, ..stuff.. part of my JPQL contained an inner join to other table. Even through in SELECT there were selected fields just from one table, which was used as type - Timetable, Eclipslink was unable to determine if this fields are part of that entity and instead of returning list of defined entity returned list of Object[].
So in conclusion: Use #OneToMany/#ManyToOne mappings (or flat table design) and query just for ONE table in your JPQL to be able to typize returned entities.
Not sure it might be something is looking for, but I had similar problem and converted Vector to ArrayList like this:
final ArrayList<YourClazz> results = new ArrayList<YourClazz>();;
for ( YourClazzkey : (Vector<YourClazz>) query.getResultList() )
{
results.add(key);
}
i have faced the same problem. and my entity has no one to one or one to many relationship. then also jpql was giving me queryresult as vector of objects. i changed my solution to query to criteria builder. and that worked for me.
code snippet is as below:
CriteriaBuilder builder = this.entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Timetable> criteria = builder.createQuery(Timetable.class);
Root<Enumeration> root = criteria.from(Timetable.class);
criteria.where(builder.equal(root.get("id"), id));
List<Timetable> topics = this.entityManager.createQuery(criteria) .getResultList();
return topics;
Just starting out with Entity Framework and am trying to work out how you would do something like this....
Say I have the following entities, Customers that have Orders that have OrderLineItems which are linked to Products. I would like to return the name of every customer with a count of the number of times they have ordered a particular product.
I have seen examples of using .Count() but these have always been for the first navigation property i.e. number of orders per customer.
Would appreciate some guidance here.
Something like this should work, where context is your DbContext instance.
It will return an IEnumerable<dynamic>, although obviously you could make a class to hold the results.
// The product to count
var productId = 12345;
context.Customers.Include("Orders.OrderLineItems.Products")
.Select(customer =>
new {
CustomerName = customer.Name,
ProductCount = customer.Orders
.SelectMany(o => o.OrderLineItems)
.SelectMany(i => i.Products.Where(p => p.Id = productId).Count()
});
The Include() extension method is useful, it will make sure that the resulting SQL query joins the relevant tables together - otherwise multiple queries would be executed for each customer (one to get orders, another for line items and a final one for products).
Im trying to call a stored procedure using Entity framework.
If I go direcly to the web api method it works fine, but when calling it from breeze it causes an exception on the metadata method.
The error is :
"Could not find the CLR type for...".
Anyone know how to fix this?
I had the very same issue, but thank God I figured out a solution. Instead of using a stored procedure, you should use a view, as Breeze recognizes views as DbSet<T>, just like tables. Say you have a SQL server table that contains two tables Customers and Orders.
Customers (**CustomerId**, FirstName, LastName)
Orders (OrderId, #CustomerId, OrderDate, OrderTotal)
Now, say you want a query that returns orders by CustomerId. Usually, you would do that in a stored procedure, but as I said, you need to use a view instead. So the query will look like this in the view.
Select o.OrderId, c.CustomerId, o.OrderDate, o.OrderTotal
from dbo.Orders o inner join dbo.Customers c on c.CustomerId = o.CustomerId
Notice there is no filtering (where ...). So:
i. Create a [general] view that includes the filtering key(s) and name it, say, OrdersByCustomers
ii. Add the OrdersByCustomers view to the entity model in your VS project
iii. Add the entity to the Breeze controller, as such:
public IQueryable<OrdersByCustomers> OrdersByCustomerId(int id)
{
return _contextProvider.Context.OrdersByCustomers
.Where(r => r.CustomerId == id);
}
Notice the .Where(r => r.CustomerId == id) filter. We could do it in the data service file, but because we want the user to see only his personal data, we need to filter from the server so it only returns his data.
iv. Now, that the entity is set in the controller, you may invoke it in the data service file, as such:
var getOrdersByCustomerId = function(orderObservable, id)
{
var query = breeze.EntityQuery.from('OrdersByCustomerId')
.WithParameters({ CustomerId: id });
return manager.executeQuery(query)
.then(function(data) {
if (orderObservable) orderObservable(data.results);
}
.fail(function(e) {
logError('Retrieve Data Failed');
}
}
v. You probably know what to do next from here.
Hope it helps.
I have a problem trying to delete an object with Entity Framework, I previously query the context to get a list of objects I need to delete, then one by one I call deleteobject
IQueryable result = context.CustomObjects.Where(t=>t.Property = something)
foreach (CustomObject customObj in result)
{
context.DeleteObject(customObj);
}
When I call DeleteObject EF executes a weird query, something like that:
exec sp_executesql N'SELECT
[Extent1].[Value1] AS [Value1],
[Extent1].[Value2] AS [Value2],
[Extent1].[Value3] AS [Value3],
FROM [CustomObject] AS [Extent1]
WHERE [Extent1].[ID] = #EntityKeyValue1',N'#EntityKeyValue1 int',#EntityKeyValue1=59
This query seems to search all the object with ID = something, but ID it is just part of the entity key that is indeed composed by 3 fields, so it attaches like n thousands items and make the process very slow, that is a behavior I can't understand, I always deleted object in this way and I have never had such a problem
can someone have an idea?
Thanks
You could be fetching mutiple objects as defined by your where query. Also for each object you fetch, you will be fetching all fields on the object CustomObject.
The query thats being executed is a select query so this confirms the above behaviour.
If you want better performance then I recommend that you do something like this:
var entityToDelete = new SomeEntity();
SomeEntity.PK = 12;
var context = new YourContextntities();
context.YourEntitites.Attach(entityToDelete);
context.YourEntitites.Remove(entityToDelete);
context.SaveChanges();