I want write a LINQ query equivalent to
select * from Users
where Username in ('something#somewhere.com', 'someone#somehting.com')
Is it possible to write this in LINQ?
In order to replicate the functionality of IN clauses you have to have (or create) a collection and check whether that collection contains the value you're looking for.
var search = new string[] {"something#somewhere.com", "someone#somehting.com"};
var results = Users.Where(u => search.Contains(u.Username));
Or, you can use a very lazy solution
DbEntities db = new DbEntities();
var users = db.Users.where(u => u.Username == "something#somewhere.com" || u.Username == "someone#somehting.com");
Very lazy (Easily understudy by beginner LINQ developer).
Related
I am trying to get a list of a database table called oracleTimeCards whose employee id equals to the employeeID in employees list. Here is what I wrote:
LandornetSQLEntities db = new LandornetSQLEntities();
List<OracleEmployee> employees = db.OracleEmployees.Where(e => e.Office.Contains(officeName) && e.IsActive == true).Distinct().ToList();
var oracleTimeCards = db.OracleTimecards.Where(c => employees.Any(e => c.PersonID == e.PersonID)).ToList();
Anyone has any idea?
I'm going to assume you're using Entity Framework here. You can't embed calls to arbitrary LINQ extension methods inside your predicate, since EF might not know how to translate these to SQL.
Assuming you want to find all the timecards for the employees you found in your first query, you have two options. The simplest is to have a navigation property on your Employee class, named let's say TimeCards, that points to a collection of time card records for the given employee. Here's how that would work:
var oracleTimeCards = employees
.SelectMany(e => e.TimeCards)
.ToList();
If you don't want to do this for whatever reason, you can create an array of employee IDs by evaluating your first query, and use this to filter the second:
var empIDs = employees
.Select(e => e.PersonID)
.ToArray();
var oracleTimeCards = db.OracleTimecards
.Where(tc => empIDs.Contains(tc.PersonID))
.ToList();
I see Dynamic linq in below link:
ScottGu
I want to use this method to select a dynamic query like this:
I have a complex select and this way not solve my problem,
this is my select:
Select sUserName,sname, sFamily,sMobail,sid,sNumberSt,sActive,sPic,sDate from Student where {0} order by sid desc";
which {0} is a complex Condition:
sname like %somthing% and susername=N'something' and sid in (select sidfk from tablex where userteacher=N'name1')
and this condition is passed to method.
I must say that:
I don's know my condition,my condition specified with user search params.this condition that I say,Is only one example of what I want to do.
How can I do this?
Only way that solve my problem:
I send tow parameters instead of one,one for student and one for tablex:
var az = db.tablex.Where(p => p.userteacher== name1)
.Select(p => p.sidfk).ToList();
var query = db.Students.Where(textSearch).Where(s=>az.Contains(s.sid)).OrderByDescending(s => s.sid)
.Select(s => new
{
s.sUserName,
s.sname,
s.sFamily,
s.sMobail,
s.sid,
s.sNumberSt,
s.sActive,
s.sPic,
s.sDate,
});
wiche textSearch is :
sname like %somthing% and susername=N'something'
with dynamic linq
any better way is exist?
You don't need to use dynamic linq for this situation.
string paramA = "", paramB = "";
var query = from x in context.table1
where x.name == paramA
where context.table2.Where(y => y.field1 == paramB).Any(y => y.id == x.id)
select x;
Dynamic Linq usually use if in query you don't know what field will be use, so in your sample you use only params for conditions with field, so you don't ned dynamic linq
you can little optimize you query like this
var query = from student in db.Students
join teacher in db.tablex on student.sid equals teacher.sidfk
where student.sname.Contains('somthing') &&
susername=='something' &&
teacher.userteacher=='name1'
orderby s.sid descending
select new
{
s.sUserName,
s.sname,
s.sFamily,
s.sMobail,
s.sid,
s.sNumberSt,
s.sActive,
s.sPic,
s.sDate,
};
I have the following linq-to-entities query with 2 joined tables that I would like to add pagination to:
IQueryable<ProductInventory> data = from inventory in objContext.ProductInventory
join variant in objContext.Variants
on inventory.VariantId equals variant.id
where inventory.ProductId == productId
where inventory.StoreId == storeId
orderby variant.SortOrder
select inventory;
I realize I need to use the .Join() extension method and then call .OrderBy().Skip().Take() to do this, I am just gettting tripped up on the syntax of Join() and can't seem to find any examples (either online or in books).
NOTE: The reason I am joining the tables is to do the sorting. If there is a better way to sort based on a value in a related table than join, please include it in your answer.
2 Possible Solutions
I guess this one is just a matter of readability, but both of these will work and are semantically identical.
1
IQueryable<ProductInventory> data = objContext.ProductInventory
.Where(y => y.ProductId == productId)
.Where(y => y.StoreId == storeId)
.Join(objContext.Variants,
pi => pi.VariantId,
v => v.id,
(pi, v) => new { Inventory = pi, Variant = v })
.OrderBy(y => y.Variant.SortOrder)
.Skip(skip)
.Take(take)
.Select(x => x.Inventory);
2
var query = from inventory in objContext.ProductInventory
where inventory.ProductId == productId
where inventory.StoreId == storeId
join variant in objContext.Variants
on inventory.VariantId equals variant.id
orderby variant.SortOrder
select inventory;
var paged = query.Skip(skip).Take(take);
Kudos to Khumesh and Pravin for helping with this. Thanks to the rest for contributing.
Define the join in your mapping, and then use it. You really don't get anything by using the Join method - instead, use the Include method. It's much nicer.
var data = objContext.ProductInventory.Include("Variant")
.Where(i => i.ProductId == productId && i.StoreId == storeId)
.OrderBy(j => j.Variant.SortOrder)
.Skip(x)
.Take(y);
Add following line to your query
var pagedQuery = data.Skip(PageIndex * PageSize).Take(PageSize);
The data variable is IQueryable, so you can put add skip & take method on it. And if you have relationship between Product & Variant, you donot really require to have join explicitly, you can refer the variant something like this
IQueryable<ProductInventory> data =
from inventory in objContext.ProductInventory
where inventory.ProductId == productId && inventory.StoreId == storeId
orderby inventory.variant.SortOrder
select new()
{
property1 = inventory.Variant.VariantId,
//rest of the properties go here
}
pagedQuery = data.Skip(PageIndex * PageSize).Take(PageSize);
My answer here based on the answer that is marked as true
but here I add a new best practice of the code above
var data= (from c in db.Categorie.AsQueryable().Join(db.CategoryMap,
cat=> cat.CategoryId, catmap => catmap.ChildCategoryId,
cat, catmap) => new { Category = cat, CategoryMap = catmap })
select (c => c.Category)
this is the best practice to use the Linq to entity because when you add AsQueryable() to your code; system will converts a generic System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable to a generic System.Linq.IQueryable which is better for .Net engine to build this query at run time
thank you Mr. Khumesh Kumawat
You would simply use your Skip(itemsInPage * pageNo).Take(itemsInPage) to do paging.
Suppose I have three tables:
Person(pid, ...)
PersonAddress(pid, aid,...)
Address(aid, ...)
Then I want to get the person address like sql:
select a.* from address a join PersonAddress pa on a.addressID=pa.addressID
where pa.personID = myPersonID
Use Entity Framework to create Entity model, then want to write a linq equivalent as above sql.
I tried it in following way:
var addresses = this.GetAddress();
var personaddresses = this.GetPersonAddress();
var query = from ad in addresses
from pa in personaddresses
where ((ad.AddressID == pa.AddressID)&&(pa.PersonID==person.personID))
select ad;
but I got error. Or I try to start from:
var result = this.Context.Address;
var result = result.Join .... //how to write linq in this way?
How to write the linq?
This is untested but if you have all of your relationships setup and you create the model (I have used Model as the name for this) from this you should be able to use the following:
var values = this.Model.Address.Select(a => a.PersonAddress.Where(pa => pa.Id == myPersonID));
You almost never use join in LINQ to Entities.
Try:
var q = from p in Context.People
where p.PersonId == personId
from a in p.Addresses // presumes p.Addresses is 1..*
select a;
Assuming you have three entities: Person, PersonAddress and Address, here is a query that should meet your needs (this example assumes an Entity Framework context named context):
var values = context.PersonAddress.Where(pa => pa.Person.PersonId == myPersonId).Select(pa => pa.Address);
However, if the PersonAddress table exists as a pure many-to-many relationship table (i.e. contains only keys), you'd be better off setting up your Entity Framework model in such a way that the intermediate table isn't necessary, which would leave you with the much simpler:
var values = context.Person.Where(p => p.PersonId == myPersonId).Addresses;
Based on the additional feedback
Because you need to include the country table, you should originate your query from the Address table. In that case:
var values = context.Address.Where(a => a.PersonAddress.Where(pa => pa.Product.Id == myProductId).Count() > 0)
To include the Country table in the result:
var values = context.Address.Include("Country").Where(a => a.PersonAddress.Where(pa => pa.Product.Id == myProductId).Count() > 0)
Is there a pattern using Linq to dynamically create a filter?
I have the need to create custom filtering on a list, in the past I would just dynamically create the SQL...it doesn't seem like this is possible with Linq.
Check out the Dynamic Linq Library from ScottGu's blog:
For example, below is a standard type-safe LINQ to SQL VB query that retrieves data from a Northwind database and displays it in a ASP.NET GridView control:
Dim Northwind As New NorthwindDataContext
Dim query = From q In Northwind.Products Where p.CategoryID = 2 And p.UnitPrice > 3 Order By p.SupplierID Select p
Gridview1.DataSource = query
GridView1.DataBind()
Using the LINQ DynamicQuery library I could re-write the above query expression instead like so
Dim Northwind As New NorthwindDataContext
Dim query = Northwind.Products .where("CategoryID=2 And UnitPrice>3") . OrderBy("SupplierId")
Gridview1.DataSource = query
GridView1.DataBind()
Notice how the conditional-where clause and sort-orderby clause now take string expressions instead of code expressions. Because they are late-bound strings I can dynamically construct them. For example: I could provide UI to an end-user business analyst using my application that enables them to construct queries on their own (including arbitrary conditional clauses).
Dynamic Linq is one way to go.
It may be overkill for your scenario. Consider:
IQueryable<Customer> query = db.Customers;
if (searchingByName)
{
query = query.Where(c => c.Name.StartsWith(someletters));
}
if (searchingById)
{
query = query.Where(c => c.Id == Id);
}
if (searchingByDonuts)
{
query = query.Where(c => c.Donuts.Any(d => !d.IsEaten));
}
query = query.OrderBy(c => c.Name);
List<Customer> = query.Take(10).ToList();
Dynamically Composing Expression Predicates
something like this?
var myList = new List<string> { "a","b","c" };
var items = from item in db.Items
where myList.Contains(item.Name)
select item;
that would create a sql statement like
SELECT * FROM Items [t0] where Name IN ('a','b','c')