Entity Framework: Custom proxies for POCO - proxy

Question

I am working with the EF6 and I am a big fan of the dynamic proxies, which enables lazy loading and change tracking. Anyway I am not happy, that the lazy loading is triggered once the property is accessed instead of loading the data, when the enumerator or the count property is called first. Therefore I tried to diesable the proxys and replace them by custom proxies. It was an easy thing to use a custom object context and overload the CreateObject method. Unfortantly the ObjectMaterialized event cannot replace the entity and I am not able to replace an entity from a query. The creation of the object lies deep in internal classes of the framework.
Has anybody an idea how to use custom proxies? Or how I am able to replace the entities materialized in an object query?

Answer 1

You should .Include the properties you want to fetch so that you avoid an N+1 query problem.
public class User
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set ;}
public virtual ICollection<Post> Posts { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Comment> Comments { get; set; }
}
public class Post
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set ; }
public int AuthorId { get; set; }
public virtual User Author { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<Comment> Comments { get; set; }
}
public class Comment
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Note { get; set ;}
public int PostId { get; set; }
public virtual Post Post { get; set; }
public int AuthorId { get; set; }
public virtual User Author { get; set; }
}
public class BlogContext : DbContext
{
public DbSet<User> Users { get; set; }
public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; }
public DbSet<Comment> Comments { get; set; }
}
Then this is BAD in that it'll do tons of queries:
using (var db = new BlogContext())
{
var user = db.Users.Single(u => u.Id=5)); // +1 query
foreach (var post in user.Posts) // N queries
{
var message = String.Format("{0} wrote {1}", user.Name, post.Title);
Console.WriteLine(message);
foreach (var comment in post.Comments) // N * M queries!
{
// and that .Author make N * M MORE!
var message = String.Format("\t{0} commented {1}", comment.Author.Name, comment.Note);
Console.WriteLine(message);
}
}
}
And this is GOOD in that it'll do one query:
using (var db = new BlogContext())
{
var user = db.Users
.Single(u => u.Id=5))
.Include(u => u.Posts) // eliminates the N post queries
.Include(u => u.Posts.Comments) // eliminates the M comment queries
.Include(u => u.Posts.Comments.Author); // eliminates the M comment author queries
foreach (var post in user.Posts) // N queries
{
var message = String.Format("{0} wrote {1}", user.Name, post.Title);
Console.WriteLine(message);
foreach (var comment in post.Comments) // N * M queries!
{
// and that .Author make N * M MORE!
var message = String.Format("\t{0} commented {1}", comment.Author.Name, comment.Note);
Console.WriteLine(message);
}
}
}