Entity框架是否支持用户定义的函数作为标量属性

时间:2010-06-16 19:14:32

标签: entity-framework-4

我想将标量函数的值包含为实体的只读属性,因为我可以在过滤器中包含该值,这是可能的吗?

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

解决方案是添加一个DefiningQuery,如下例所示:


    <!-- SSDL content -->  
      <EntitySet Name="Emp" EntityType="TestModel.Store.Emp" >
        <DefiningQuery>
          SELECT EMPNO, ENAME, JOB, MGR, HIREDATE, SAL, COMM, DEPTNO, dbo.MyFunc(DEPTNO) AS DNAME FROM EMP
        </DefiningQuery>
      </EntitySet>
      <EntityType Name="Emp">
        <Key>
          <PropertyRef Name="EMPNO" />
        </Key>
        <Property Name="EMPNO" Type="int" Nullable="false" />
    ...
        <Property Name="DNAME" Type="varchar" MaxLength ="20" />
      </EntityType>
    ...
    <!-- CSDL content -->
    ...
        <EntityType Name="Emp">
          <Key>
            <PropertyRef Name="EMPNO" />
          </Key>
          <Property Name="EMPNO" Type="Int32" Nullable="false" />
    ...
          <Property Name="DNAME" Type="String" MaxLength="20" Unicode="false" FixedLength="false" />
        </EntityType>
    <!-- C-S mapping content -->
    ...
            <ScalarProperty Name="EMPNO" ColumnName="EMPNO" />
    ...
            <ScalarProperty Name="DNAME" ColumnName="DNAME" />
    ...

用法示例:

using(TestEntities4 db = new TestEntities4()) {
  var q = from e in db.Emp where e.DNAME == "RESEARCH" select e;
}

答案 1 :(得分:0)

在EF4中,您可以在同一名称空间中定义与Entity Framework类同名的部分类,并为其添加只读属性。我刚刚这样做是为了将连接的Entity对象的描述公开为原始对象的只读属性。

namespace same.as.the.data.model
{
    public partial class Order
    {
        public string CustomerName
        {
            get { return Customer.Name; }
        }
    }
}