Entity Framework Core Customize Scaffolding

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Entity Framework Core Customize Scaffolding

c# entity-framework-core

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I have done scaffolding of my SQLServer database. And it creates the POCO objects in the specified folder. What i would like to do is that it extends from my base class. I also use repository pattern so i need to have Id key on every entity and I don't want to change that each time i rescaffold the database.

Scaffold Model Example

public partial class Food
{
     public int Id { get; set; }
     public string Name { get; set; }
     public string Description { get; set; }
     public double Price { get; set; }
}

Expected Result:

public partial class Food : EntityBase
{
     public string Name { get; set; }
     public string Description { get; set; }
     public double Price { get; set; }
}

public class EntityBase : IEntityBase
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

DÅ¾ivo JeliÄ‡

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@Tornike Choladze's excellent answer led me in the right direction, but in the latest versions of .Net Core (2.0 >) this has to be done a little differently it seems, with regard to the setup.

The custom entity type generator:

class MyEntityTypeGenerator : CSharpEntityTypeGenerator
{
    public MyEntityTypeGenerator(ICSharpUtilities cSharpUtilities) : base(cSharpUtilities) { }

    public override string WriteCode(IEntityType entityType, string @namespace, bool useDataAnnotations)
    {
        string code = base.WriteCode(entityType, @namespace, useDataAnnotations);

        var oldString = "public partial class " + entityType.Name;
        var newString = "public partial class " + entityType.Name + " : EntityBase";

        return code.Replace(oldString, newString);
    }
}

And the setup, which consists of a class in the same assembly and implementing IDesignTimeServices:

public class MyDesignTimeServices : IDesignTimeServices
{
    public void ConfigureDesignTimeServices(IServiceCollection serviceCollection)
    {
        serviceCollection.AddSingleton<ICSharpEntityTypeGenerator, MyEntityTypeGenerator>();            
    }
}

Chris Peacock

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Tornike Choladze · Accepted Answer · 10/3/2017 1:06:21 PM

You can use DbContextWriter & EntityTypeWriter to customize scaffold output.

In newer versions of entity core writers renamed:

DBContextWriter ==>> CSharpDbContextGenerator
EntityTypeWriter ==>> CSharpEntityTypeGenerator

Write some custom type writer, you can override everything and you will get your own code generator:

//HERE YOU CAN CHANGE THE WAY TYPES ARE GENERATED AND YOU CAN ADD INTERFACE OR BASE CLASS AS PARENT.
public class CustomEntitiyTypeWriter : EntityTypeWriter
{
    public CustomEntitiyTypeWriter([NotNull] CSharpUtilities cSharpUtilities)
        : base(cSharpUtilities)
    { }

    // Write Code returns generated code for class and you can raplec it with your base class
    public override string WriteCode([NotNull] EntityConfiguration entityConfiguration)
    {
        var classStr = base.WriteCode(entityConfiguration);

        var defaultStr = "public partial class " + entityConfiguration.EntityType.Name;
        var baseStr = "public partial class " + entityConfiguration.EntityType.Name + " : EntityBase";

        classStr = classStr.Replace(defaultStr, baseStr);

        return classStr;
    }      
}

declare it in setup:

public static void ConfigureDesignTimeServices(IServiceCollection services)
           => services.AddSingleton<EntityTypeWriter, CustomEntitiyTypeWriter>();

and then scaffold db, you can do the same for DBContext with CustomDBContextWriter.

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