How to know whether a property stored in DbEntityEntry is a property`?
c# entity-framework entity-framework-6
Question
In Entity Framework 6 within an DbEntityEntry certain information can be retrieved by calling Property.
However, this fails with an ArgumentException when the property is not a property but a collection or reference. Than other functions must be used.
How can I know which function to call? That is, how can I know of what type (simple property, complex property, reference, collection) the property is?
For DbEntityEntry see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.entity.infrastructure.dbentityentry%28v=vs.113%29.aspx
I am using Entity Framework 6.1.3 in Visual Studio 2013.
Accepted Answer
DbEntityEntry.Member(string) returns a DbMemberEntry, which you can check with (memberEntry is DbPropertyEntry).
Popular Answer
I have find how to get if the navigation property is collection type or not.
For this, we need to get BuiltInTypeKind of the property.
I am using this code for getting all navigation properties of the entity:
var entitySetElementType = ((IObjectContextAdapter)context).ObjectContext.CreateObjectSet<TEntity>().EntitySet.ElementType;
var navProperties = entitySetElementType.NavigationProperties;
Then, we can know if th navigation property is collection or not:
foreach (var navigationProperty in entiySetElementType.NavigationProperties)
{
var builtInType = navigationProperty.TypeUsage.EdmType.BuiltInTypeKind;
var isCollection = builtInType == System.Data.Metadata.Edm.BuiltInTypeKind.CollectionKind
|| builtInType == System.Data.Metadata.Edm.BuiltInTypeKind.CollectionType;
}
UPDATE
Since EF has been moved to a separate assembly & namespace, the System.Data.Metadata.Edm.BuiltInTypeKind.CollectionKind in above code should be changed to System.Data.Entity.Core.Metadata.Edm.BuiltInTypeKind.CollectionKind.
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