使用EF4读取引用实体的PropertyInfo的值

时间:2012-01-26 20:38:46

标签: c# reflection entity-framework-4 entity-framework-4.1

我想动态读取我在循环通过父实体的PropertyInfos时遇到的EntityObjects的PropertyInfos的值(连接到当前Image实例的ImageType实例的列值,fi)

主要实体的类型仅在运行时已知,因此我正在寻找一种读取任何引用的实体对象的PropertyInfo值的通用方法。

我可以遍历子实体的PropertyInfos,但是当我尝试获取值时,我得到一个TargetException:Object与目标类型不匹配。

// loop through the main entity's properties
foreach (PropertyInfo pi in entityType.GetProperties())
{
    // if the main entity's property is an entity
    if (pi.PropertyType.BaseType == typeof(System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityObject))
    {
        // loop through the sub entity's properties
        foreach(PropertyInfo mychildren in pi.PropertyType.GetProperties())     
        {   
            // the loop works fine but when i try to get a value I get a
            // TargetException: Object does not match target type.
            object test = mychildren.GetValue(pi, null);
        }
    }
}

我该怎么做?

修改

Entity Framework 4.0似乎不允许您动态检索实体相关实体的实例。但是使用EF 4.1及更高版本,您可以使用其类名作为字符串标识符。所以我升级到EF 4.2并开始工作。

我想要这段代码的原因是在我的DTO翻译例程中使用它。我的DTO可以具有与相关实体的名称属性相对应的字符串属性,这样我就可以访问这些属性而无需对相关实体的类型进行硬编码。

在EF 4.1及更高版本中,ObjectContext由名为DbContext的类包装,该类提供导航属性,使用该属性可以使用字符串获取相关实体的实例。要动态检索单个相关实体,您可以使用:

dynamic refObject = Activator.CreateInstance(refObjectType);

refObject = context.Entry(currentObject).Reference(refObjectType.Name)。CurrentValue;

对于那些从4.0升级的人:使用DbContext的推荐方法不是使用EntityObjects而是使用POCO。这些可以手动完成,也可以通过edmx上下文菜单生成。

我目前的实施如下:

// Loop through the propertyinfos of the dto's type
foreach (PropertyInfo pf in dtoType.GetProperties().Where(p => p.CanWrite))
{
    // Use the name of the dto property to get the corresponding property from the POCO's type. If it doesn't exist, pi will be null
    PropertyInfo pi = pocoType.GetProperty(pf.Name, BindingFlags.IgnoreCase | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);

    if (pi != null)
    {
        // Check if the current propertyinfo of the POCO has a subproperty named Id
        // If this is the case we treat the propertyinfo as a referenced POCO
        if (pi.PropertyType.GetProperty("Id") != null)
        {
            // skip referenced POCOs if their data is not needed
            if (!includeRelated) continue;

            // Get the type of the referenced POCO
            Type refObjectType = pi.PropertyType;
            // Create an instance of the referenced POCO
            dynamic refObject = Activator.CreateInstance(refObjectType);

            // Create a type of GenericRepository<objectType>
            Type refObjectRepositoryType = typeof(GenericRepository<>).MakeGenericType(refObjectType);
            // Create an instance of GenericRepository<objectType>
            dynamic refObjectRepository = Activator.CreateInstance(refObjectRepositoryType);

            // Fill the dynamic POCO instance with the values of the referenced POCO instance
            refObject = refObjectRepository._context.Entry(poco).Reference(refObjectType.Name).CurrentValue;

            try
            {
                // Set the dto property with the name value of the referenced POCO instance
                // (i.e. dtoImage.ImageType = pocImage.ImageType.Name)
                pf.SetValue(dto, refObject.Name, null);
            }
            catch (RuntimeBinderException)
            {
                // this happens when the related entity is null, ie. in one to zero-or-one relationships
                continue;
            }

            continue;
        }

        // If the propertyinfo's propertytype does not have an Id property, just set the value of  
        // the dto property to that of the POCO's propertyinfo directly
        pf.SetValue(dto, pi.GetValue(poco, null), null);

    }
}

现在,此代码仅适用于同时具有Id和Name属性的引用实体。此外,这种方法可能会有性能损失,因此我实现了标记includeRelated来切换是否查询相关对象。

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:1)

您尝试从父PropertyInfo获取价值,但GetValue期望pi.PropertyType类型的对象。你应该使用这样的东西:

using (var context = new MyContext())
{
    var cust = context.Customer.First();
    var custType = cust.CustomerType;

    var pi = typeof (Customer).GetProperty("CustomerType");
    var child = pi.PropertyType.GetProperty("CustomerTypeID");

    var res = child.GetValue(custType, null);
    // this returns value of Customer.CustomerTypeID
}