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Trying to deep clone the row values with in the entity except Id

I have project entity structure like this as below with project name and project number and along with some list objects as well as properties.
public class DesignProject
{
[Key, GraphQLNonNullType]
public string ProjectNumber { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
[Column(TypeName = "jsonb")]
public ProjectSectionStatus SectionStatuses { get; set; } = new ProjectSectionStatus();
[ForeignKey("AshraeClimateZone"), GraphQLIgnore]
public Guid? AshraeClimateZoneId { get; set; }
public virtual AshraeClimateZone AshraeClimateZone { get; set; }
[Column(TypeName = "jsonb")]
public List<ProjectObject<classA>> classAList{ get; set; } = new List<ProjectObject<classA>>();
[Column(TypeName = "jsonb")]
public List<ProjectObject<classB>> classBList{ get; set; } = new List<ProjectObject<classB>>();
......
......
......
Some more json columns
}
and the project object class like this
public class ProjectObject<T>
{
public Guid? Id { get; set; }
public T OriginalObject { get; set; }
public T ModifiedObject { get; set; }
[GraphQLIgnore, JsonIgnore]
public T TargetObject
{
get
{
return ModifiedObject ?? OriginalObject;
}
}
}
and ClassA entity structure like as below
public class ClassA
{
public string Edition { get; set; }
public string City { get; set; }
}
and i have some similar children entities (ClassA) same like as above, I want to copy the contents and statuses from one project entity to other project entity.
I have project entity with ProjectNumber 1212 and have another project having ProjectNumber like 23323 so i would like copy entire project contents from 1212 to 23323. So is there any way we can achieve this with C# and i am using .Net Core with Entity framework core.
Here the source design project that i am going to copy have same structure with destination design project and i am fine with overriding the destination project values and i don't want to update the project number here.
Could any one please let me know the how can i achieve this copying? Thanks in advance!!
Please let me know if i need to add any details for this question
Update : Deep copy related code
public InsertResponse<string> CopyBookmarkproject(string SourceProjectNumber, string destinationProjectNumber)
{
var sourceDesignProject = this._dbContext.DesignProject.Where(a => a.ProjectNumber == SourceProjectNumber).SingleOrDefault();
var destinationProject = this._dbContext.DesignProject.Where(a => a.ProjectNumber == destinationProjectNumber).SingleOrDefault();
CopyProject(sourceDesignProject, destinationProject);
// Need to update the Db context at here after deep copy
}
private void CopyProject(DesignProject sourceDesignProject, DesignProject destinationProject)
{
destinationProject.classAList= sourceDesignProject.classAList; // Not sure whether this copy will works
destinationProject.AshraeClimateZone = sourceDesignProject.AshraeClimateZone; // not sure whether this copy will works also
}
Updated solution 2:
var sourceDesignProject = this._dbContext.DesignProjects.AsNoTracking()
.Where(a => a.ProjectNumber == sourceProjectNumber)
.Include(a => a.PrimaryBuildingType)
.Include(a => a.AshraeClimateZone).SingleOrDefault();
var targetDesignProject = this._dbContext.DesignProjects.Where(a => a.ProjectNumber == targetProjectNumber).SingleOrDefault();
sourceDesignProject.ProjectNumber = targetDesignProject.ProjectNumber;
sourceDesignProject.SectionStatuses.AirSystemsSectionStatus = Entities.Enums.ProjectSectionStage.INCOMPLETE;
sourceDesignProject.SectionStatuses.CodesAndGuidelinesSectionStatus = Entities.Enums.ProjectSectionStage.INCOMPLETE;
sourceDesignProject.SectionStatuses.ExecutiveSummarySectionStatus = Entities.Enums.ProjectSectionStage.INCOMPLETE;
sourceDesignProject.SectionStatuses.ExhaustEquipmentSectionStatus = Entities.Enums.ProjectSectionStage.INCOMPLETE;
sourceDesignProject.SectionStatuses.InfiltrationSectionStatus = Entities.Enums.ProjectSectionStage.INCOMPLETE;
this._dbContext.Entry(sourceDesignProject).State = EntityState.Modified; // getting the below error at this line
this._dbContext.SaveChanges();
ok = true;
getting an error like as below
The instance of entity type 'DesignProject' cannot be tracked because another instance with the same key value for {'ProjectNumber'} is already being tracked. When attaching existing entities, ensure that only one entity instance with a given key value is attached.

There's a simple and short solution which uses .AsNoTracking() for source entry, assigning destination's ProjectNumber to the source and then changing the EntityState as Modified for it. It will copy all the properties to the destination entry :
var sourceDesignProject = this._dbContext.DesignProject.AsNoTracking().Where(a => a.ProjectNumber == SourceProjectNumber).SingleOrDefault();
var destinationProject = this._dbContext.DesignProject.Where(a => a.ProjectNumber == destinationProjectNumber).SingleOrDefault();
sourceDesignProject.ProjectNumber = destinationProject.ProjectNumber;
this._dbContext.Entry(sourceDesignProject).State = System.Data.Entity.EntityState.Modified;
this._dbContext.SaveChanges();
Make sure your relational properties are loaded before.

You can make use of Reflection. As you have both, source and destination objects and are of the same type. You can just traverse through source object and fetch the properties and replace the values.
Something like :
if (inputObjectA != null && inputObjectB != null)
{
//create variables to store object values
object value1, value2;
PropertyInfo[] properties = inputObjectA.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
//get all public properties of the object using reflection
foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in properties)
{
//get the property values of both the objects
value1 = propertyInfo.GetValue(inputObjectA, null);
value2 = propertyInfo.GetValue(inputObjectB, null);
}
Ignore the properties that are not needed to be copied. The method will have a signature like below :
CopyObjects(object inputObjectA, object inputObjectB, string[] ignorePropertiesList)

Two choices bring to mind for deep copy of objects:
1- Using BinaryFormatter (Needs Serializable attribute on your class, See original answer):
public static T DeepClone<T>(this T obj)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
formatter.Serialize(ms, obj);
ms.Position = 0;
return (T) formatter.Deserialize(ms);
}
}
2- Using JsonSerializers like NewtoneSoft:
public static T CloneJson<T>(this T source)
{
// Don't serialize a null object, simply return the default for that object
if (Object.ReferenceEquals(source, null))
{
return default(T);
}
// initialize inner objects individually
// for example in default constructor some list property initialized with some values,
// but in 'source' these items are cleaned -
// without ObjectCreationHandling.Replace default constructor values will be added to result
var deserializeSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings {ObjectCreationHandling = ObjectCreationHandling.Replace};
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(source), deserializeSettings);
}
Update
Here's the code you can use with NewtonSoft Json library:
private void CopyProject(DesignProject sourceDesignProject, ref DesignProject destinationProject)
{
if (Object.ReferenceEquals(sourceDesignProject, null))
{
destinationProject = null;
return;
}
var deserializeSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings {ObjectCreationHandling = ObjectCreationHandling.Replace};
var destProjNumber = destinationProject.ProjectNumber;
destinationProject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DesignProject>
(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(sourceDesignProject), deserializeSettings);
destinationProject.ProjectNumber = destProjNumber;
}

I always prefer using AutoMapper for these type of work. It's optimized and lower risk of making mistakes. And better than serialize/deserialize method since that would cause performance issues.
In your constructor (or in startup.cs and passing via dependency injection)
var config = new MapperConfiguration(cfg => {
cfg.CreateMap<DesignProject, DesignProject>().ForMember(x => x.Id, opt => opt.Ignore());
cfg.CreateMap<ProjectObject<ClassA>, ProjectObject<ClassA>>().ForMember(x => x.Id, opt => opt.Ignore()));
cfg.CreateMap<ProjectObject<ClassA>, ProjectObject<ClassB>>().ForMember(x => x.Id, opt => opt.Ignore()));
cfg.CreateMap<ProjectObject<ClassB>, ProjectObject<ClassB>>().ForMember(x => x.Id, opt => opt.Ignore()));
cfg.CreateMap<ProjectObject<ClassB>, ProjectObject<ClassA>>().ForMember(x => x.Id, opt => opt.Ignore()));
});
var mapper = config.CreateMapper();
In your method :
var newProject = mapper.Map(sourceProject, new DesignProject());
OR
mapper.Map(sourceProject, targetProject);

This shouldn't work. If I understand you want to copy all elements from list into new list, but to make new object. Than maybe you can use extension method to clone complete list as described here link. For updating navigation properties check this post link.

Cosmos DB - Use ARRAY_CONTAINS in LINQ

I have collection of documents in Cosmos DB. Document can have inner array of objects. So model look like this:
public class Document
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public IList<InnerDocument> InnerDocuments { get; set; }
}
public class InnerDocument
{
public string Type { get; set; }
public string Created { get; set; }
}
I need to get all inner documents if at least one of them has certain type.
If I create query like this:
var innerDocument = new InnerDocument()
{
Type = "foo"
};
context.CreateDocumentQuery<Document>(uri, feedOptions)
.Where(d => d.id == "sample" && d.InnerDocuments.Contains(innerDocument));
it translate like this:
SELECT * FROM root
WHERE (root[\"id\"] = "sample"
AND ARRAY_CONTAINS(root[\"innerDocuments\"], {\"type\":\"foo\"}))
but it returns nothing, because no inner document look like this (all inner documents has also Created) so I need to add third parameter to ARRAY_CONTAINS (which tell that only part match on document is enough) so it should look like this:
SELECT * FROM root
WHERE (root[\"id\"] = "sample"
AND ARRAY_CONTAINS(root[\"innerDocuments\"], {\"type\":\"foo\"}, true))
My problem is that I did not figure out how to pass third parameter in linq. I also tried write IEqualityComparer, which always return true but with no effect (well efect was that I got exception..).
Do you have any idea how could I pass that param in linq?
Thanks.

as far as I know, unfortunately there is no LINQ equivalent for the ARRAY_CONTAINS (<arr_expr>, <expr> , bool_expr) overload. To achieve your scenarios, for now you can use SQL query. We are currently working on a set of changes that will enable LINQ for this scenario.
Edit: the available alternative is to use the Any operator with the filters on the property you want to match. For example, the SQL filter: ARRAY_CONTAINS(root.addresses, {"city": "Redmond"}, TRUE) is equivalent to this LINQ expression: addresses.Any(address => address.city == "Redmond")

If I understand correctly, you wish to retrieve all documents that have any inner document in the array with a given property value ("foo" in this example).
Normally, you would use .Where(d => d.InnerDocuments.Any(i => i.Type == "foo")), but Any is not supported yet by the Cosmos LINQ provider.
Instead, you can use this construct as a work-around:
context.CreateDocumentQuery<Document>(uri, feedOptions)
.Where(d => d.Id == "sample")
.SelectMany(d => d.InnerDocuments.Where(i => i.Type == "foo").Select(i => d));
According to this thread Microsoft has recently started working on a real Any feature for the Cosmos LINQ provider.

My solution was slightly more of a hack than a solution, but it works temporarily until the full functionality for .Any() exists.
I use Expressions to dynamically build the Where predicate for my documents, allowing me pass in a CosmosSearchCriteria object which has a list of CosmosCriteria objects as below:
public class CosmosCriteria
{
public CosmosCriteria()
{
ContainsValues = new List<string>();
}
public CosmosCriteriaType CriteriaType { get; set; }
public string PropertyName { get; set; }
public string PropertyValue { get; set; }
public ConvertedRuleComparitor Comparitor { get; set; }
public DateRange Dates { get; set; }
public List<string> ContainsValues { get; set; }
}
This allows me to query any property of the Contact model by essentially passing in the PropertyName and PropertyValue.
I haven't looked into the other workaround in here to see if I can make it work with my expression tree building, at the minute I can't afford the time to investigate.
public async Task<CosmosSearchResponse<Model.Contact>>
GetContactsBySearchCriteriaAsync(int pageSize, long companyId,
CosmosSearchCriteria searchCriteria, string continuationToken = null)
{
var collectionName = CreateCollectionName(companyId, Constants.CollectionType.Contacts);
var feedOptions = new FeedOptions { MaxItemCount = pageSize };
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(continuationToken))
{
feedOptions.RequestContinuation = continuationToken;
}
var collection = UriFactory.CreateDocumentCollectionUri(
Configuration.GetValue<string>(Constants.Settings.COSMOS_DATABASE_SETTING),
collectionName);
IOrderedQueryable<Model.Contact> documents = Client.CreateDocumentQuery<Model.Contact>(
collection,
feedOptions
);
documents = (IOrderedQueryable<Model.Contact>)documents.Where(document => document.deleted != true);
bool requiresConcatenation = false;
foreach (var criteria in searchCriteria.Criteria)
{
switch (criteria.CriteriaType)
{
case Constants.CosmosCriteriaType.ContactProperty:
// This is where predicates for the documents.Where(xxxx)
// clauses are built dynamically with Expressions.
documents = AddContactPropertyClauses(documents, criteria);
break;
case Constants.CosmosCriteriaType.PushCampaignHistory:
requiresConcatenation = true;
break;
}
}
documents = (IOrderedQueryable<Model.Contact>)documents.AsDocumentQuery();
/*
From this point onwards, we have to do some wizardry to get around the fact that there is no Linq to SQL
extension overload for the Cosmos DB function ARRAY_CONTAINS (<arr_expr>, <expr> , bool_expr).
The feature is planned for development but is not yet ready.
Keep an eye on the following for updates:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52412557/cosmos-db-use-array-contains-in-linq
https://feedback.azure.com/forums/263030-azure-cosmos-db/suggestions/11503872-support-linq-any-or-where-for-child-object-collect
*/
if (requiresConcatenation)
{
var sqlString = documents.ToString();
var jsonDoc = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(sqlString); // Have to do this to remove the escaping
var q = (string)jsonDoc.query;
var queryRootAlias = Util.GetAliasNameFromQuery(q);
if (queryRootAlias == string.Empty)
{
throw new FormatException("Unable to parse root alias from query.");
}
foreach (var criteria in searchCriteria.Criteria)
{
switch (criteria.CriteriaType)
{
case Constants.CosmosCriteriaType.PushCampaignHistory:
q += string.Format(" AND ARRAY_CONTAINS({0}[\"CampaignHistory\"], {{\"CampaignType\":1,\"CampaignId\":{1}, \"IsOpened\": true }}, true) ", queryRootAlias, criteria.PropertyValue);
break;
}
}
documents = (IOrderedQueryable<Model.Contact>)Client.CreateDocumentQuery<Model.Contact>(
collection,
q,
feedOptions
).AsDocumentQuery();
}
var returnValue = new CosmosSearchResponse<Model.Contact>();
returnValue.Results = new List<Model.Contact>();
Console.WriteLine(documents.ToString());
var resultsPage = await ((IDocumentQuery<Model.Contact>)documents).ExecuteNextAsync<Model.Contact>();
returnValue.Results.AddRange(resultsPage);
if (((IDocumentQuery<Model.Contact>)documents).HasMoreResults)
{
returnValue.ContinuationToken = resultsPage.ResponseContinuation;
}
return returnValue;
}
Hope this helps, or if someone has a better way, please do tell!
Dave

How to map two list with automapper?

I have two classes in the different location.
namespace IVR.MyEndpointApi.POCO
{
[Table("MyServiceUrl")]
public class MyURL
{
[Key]
[Column("FacilityID")]
public int FacilityId { get; set; }
[Column("Url")]
public string Url { get; set; }
}
}
namespace OpsTools.Models
{
public class MyServiceEndpoint
{
public int FacilityId { get; set; }
public string Url { get; set; }
}
}
In another method, I get the list and want to convert then return it as the desired type. I manually do it as below:
public List<MyServiceEndpoint> GetAllUrls()
{
var management = GetMyEndpointManagement();
var list = management.GetAllUrls();
var urlList = new List<MyServiceEndpoint>();
foreach (var item in list)
{
// the type of item is MyURL
var MyUrl = new MyServiceEndpoint();
myUrl.FacilityId = item.FacilityId;
myUrl.Url = item.Url;
urlList.Add(myUrl);
}
return urlList;
}
My question: can I apply AutoMapper to it?
EDIT:
I used the code:
var myUrls = management.GetAllUrls();
var urlList = new List<MyServiceEndpoint>();
Mapper.CreateMap<MyServiceEndpoint, MyURL>();
urlList = Mapper.Map<List<MyServiceEndpoint>, List<MyURL>>(myUrls);
Mapper.AssertConfigurationIsValid();
However, it has the error:
Error CS1503 Argument 1: cannot convert from 'System.Collections.Generic.List' to ....

Oops, come on. I change the order, then it works.
From
urlList = Mapper.Map<List<MyServiceEndpoint>, List<MyURL>>(myUrls);
To
urlList = Mapper.Map<List< List<MyURL>,MyServiceEndpoint>>(myUrls);

If you inspect the actual exception (you left the relevant part off), you'll see that Mapper.Map<TSource, TDestination>() tries to map from and to the wrong types.
The full error will read:
cannot convert from System.Collections.Generic.List<MyURL> to System.Collections.Generic.List<MyServiceEndpoint>
Which means that call will actually try to map from List<MyServiceEndpoint>, requiring an argument of that type, which your source list isn't.
Simply switch the types in the Map() call:
urlList = Mapper.Map<List<MyURL>, List<MyServiceEndpoint>>(myUrls);
Or remove the new list creation entirely, move the declaration and use type inference:
var urlList = Mapper.Map<List<MyServiceEndpoint>>(myUrls);

RavenDB - stream index query results in exception

We're currently trying to use the Task<IAsyncEnumerator<StreamResult<T>>> StreamAsync<T>(IQueryable<T> query, CancellationToken token = null), running into some issues.
Our document look something like:
public class Entity
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public DateTime Created { get; set; }
public Geolocation Geolocation { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
public IList<string> SubEntities { get; set; }
public Entity()
{
this.Id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
this.Created = DateTime.UtcNow;
}
}
In combination we've a view model, which is also the model were indexing:
public class EntityViewModel
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public DateTime Created { get; set; }
public Geolocation Geolocation { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
public IList<SubEntity> SubEntities { get; set; }
}
And ofcourse, the index, with the resulttype inheriting from the viewmodel, to enable that SubEntities are mapped and output correctly, while enabling the addition of searchfeatures such as fulltext etc.:
public class EntityWithSubentitiesIndex : AbstractIndexCreationTask<Entity, EntityWithSubentitiesIndex.Result>
{
public class Result : EntityViewModel
{
public string Fulltext { get; set; }
}
public EntityWithSubentitiesIndex ()
{
Map = entities => from entity in entities
select new
{
Id = entity.Id,
Created = entity.Created,
Geolocation = entity.Geolocation,
SubEntities = entity.SubEntities.Select(x => LoadDocument<SubEntity>(x)),
Fulltext = new[]
{
entity.Description
}.Concat(entity.SubEntities.Select(x => LoadDocument<SubEntity>(x).Name)),
__ = SpatialGenerate("__geolokation", entity.Geolocation.Lat, entity.Geolocation.Lon)
};
Index(x => x.Created.Date, FieldIndexing.Analyzed);
Index(x => x.Fulltext, FieldIndexing.Analyzed);
Spatial("__geolokation", x => x.Cartesian.BoundingBoxIndex());
}
}
Finally we're querying like this:
var query = _ravenSession.Query<EntityWithSubentitiesIndex.Result, EntityWithSubentitiesIndex>()
.Customize(c =>
{
if (filter.Boundary == null) return;
var wkt = filter.Boundary.GenerateWkt().Result;
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(wkt))
{
c.RelatesToShape("__geolokation", wkt, SpatialRelation.Within);
}
})
.AsQueryable();
// (...) and several other filters here, removed for clarity
var enumerator = await _ravenSession.Advanced.StreamAsync(query);
var list = new List<EntityViewModel>();
while (await enumerator.MoveNextAsync())
{
list.Add(enumerator.Current.Document);
}
When doing so we're getting the following exception:
System.InvalidOperationException: The query results type is 'Entity'
but you expected to get results of type 'Result'. If you want to
return a projection, you should use
.ProjectFromIndexFieldsInto() (for Query) or
.SelectFields() (for DocumentQuery) before calling to
.ToList().
According to the documentation, the Streaming API should support streaming via an index, and querying via an IQueryable at once.
How can this be fixed, while still using an index, and the streaming API, to:
Prevent having to page through the normal query, to work around the default pagesize
Prevent having to load the subentities one at a time when querying
Thanks in advance!

Try to use:
.As<Entity>()
(or .OfType<Entity>()) in your query. That should work in the regular stream.
This is a simple streaming query using "TestIndex" that is an index over an entity Test and I'm using a TestIndex.Result to look like your query. Note that this is actually not what the query will return, it's only there so you can write typed queries (ie. .Where(x => x.SomethingMapped == something))
var queryable = session.Query<TestIndex.Result, TestIndex>()
.Customize(c =>
{
//do stuff
})
.As<Test>();
var enumerator = session.Advanced.Stream(queryable);
while (enumerator.MoveNext())
{
var entity = enumerator.Current.Document;
}
If you instead want to retrieve the values from the index and not the actual entity being indexed you have to store those as fields and then project them into a "view model" that matches your mapped properties. This can be done by using .ProjectFromIndexFieldsInto<T>() in your query. All the stored fields from the index will be mapped to the model you specify.
Hope this helps (and makes sense)!
Edit: Updated with a, for me, working example of the Streaming API used with ProjectFromIndexFieldsInto<T>() that returns more than 128 records.
using (var session = store.OpenAsyncSession())
{
var queryable = session.Query<Customers_ByName.QueryModel, Customers_ByName>()
.Customize(c =>
{
//just to do some customization to look more like OP's query
c.RandomOrdering();
})
.ProjectFromIndexFieldsInto<CustomerViewModel>();
var enumerator = await session.Advanced.StreamAsync(queryable);
var customerViewModels = new List<CustomerViewModel>();
while (await enumerator.MoveNextAsync())
{
customerViewModels.Add(enumerator.Current.Document);
}
Console.WriteLine(customerViewModels.Count); //in my case 504
}
The above code works great for me. The index has one property mapped (name) and that property is stored. This is running the latest stable build (3.0.3800).

As #nicolai-heilbuth stated in the comments to #jens-pettersson's answer, it seems to be a bug in the RavenDB client libraries from version 3 onwards.
Bug report filed here: http://issues.hibernatingrhinos.com/issue/RavenDB-3916

c# - Find element value in an Object within a List within Dictionnary

I'm currently in needs of creating a Dictionary like that :
public Dictionary<MyFirstObject, List<MySecondObject>> _reference { get; set; }
These 2 objects store datas which need to be match during the process. This is why I used a Dictionary. The Objects looks like that :
public class MyFirstObject
{
public string _element1 ;
public MyThirdObject _element2;
public MyFirstObject(string element1, MyThirdObject element2)
{
_element1 = element1;
_element2 = element2;
}
}
public class MySecondObject
{
public string _element3;
public string _element4;
public string _element5;
public MySecondObject(string element3, string element4, string element5)
{
_element3 = element3;
_element4 = element4;
_element5 = element5;
}
}
Than I would like to get the "MyFirstObject" which contain some data inside, for example I succeed to find the "_element1" and I got the related "MyFirstObject" of this request :
MyFirstObject mfo = _reference.FirstOrDefault(z => z.Key._element1 == "mySearch").Key
This code works ! I think that I could easily find the _element2 without problem.
Now, I would like to do the same thing with the "Dictionary.Value" and find, for example, the "_element3".
I tried this code :
MyFirstObject mfo = _reference.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value.FirstOrDefault(z => z._element3 == "mySearch")).Key;
I used the ".Key" at the end because I would like to get the relative "MyFirstObject" of this request. But this request doesn't work.
Can you help me to success this request please ?
Thanks
EDIT : the error message is : "Cannot implicitly convert type 'MySecondObject' to 'bool'"

var result = _reference.FirstOrDefault(x =>
x.Value.Any(z => z._element3 == "mySearch"));
if (result.Key != null)
MyFirstObject mfo = result.Key;