Clearing fetch strategy?

[Kendall Bennett]

I am learning how to use the Fetch Strategies with OpenAccess, and the way it works is that I create the strategy I want and then assign it to the context. Then I make my queries and things will happen as expected.

However what am I supposed to do the clear the fetch strategy when I am done with it, since we use the same context for the life of a single web request? I assume if I leave it attached, if another piece of code uses the same context to make a query, it will end up loading the data with the same fetch plan, which may or may not be what I want.

I am thinking that I should probably just reset the fetch plan after call my query to get the objects I am looking for out of the database, by just assigning a null to the context.FetchStrategy field?

[Alexander]

Hi Kendall Bennett,

You can reset the strategy by assigning a new instance of the FetchStrategy class to the FetchStrategy property of the context instance:

context.FetchStrategy = new FetchStrategy();

Setting the property to null would not reset the fetch strategy but would keep the last one used.
I hope that helps.

Best wishes,
Alexander
the Telerik team

[Kendall Bennett]

Ok thanks. I would be a lot simpler API wise if there was a way to clear this than assigning a fresh instance (such as assigning a null to it), and it would be nice if this was better documented.

[Alexander]

Hello Kendall Bennett,

You are right, I added this to our TODO list. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Best wishes,
Alexander
the Telerik team

[Kendall Bennett]

By default when no fetch strategy is set to null, so it would be logical that setting it back to null would clear the fetch strategy?