Virtual properties

[Alexander Timofeev]

Hi.

Does OpenAccess Free Edition support C# virtual properties?

The simple test example is not working. I have compile time error:
Error 23 There is no field with name 'name' backing 'Name' property in type 'Roof.ExtendedModel.Entities.TestDerived'. You need to either change the Field Naming rules of the mapping configuration object or call HasFieldName(string) with the name of the backing field.

public class TestBase
 {
     public Int64 Id { get; set; }

     public virtual string Name
     {
         get
         {
             return "";
         }
         set
         {
         }
     }

     public new static MappingConfiguration GetMapping()
     {
         MappingConfiguration<TestBase> m = new MappingConfiguration<TestBase>();
         m.MapType();

         m.HasProperty(p => p.Id).IsIdentity(KeyGenerator.Autoinc);

         m.HasProperty(p => p.Name).AsTransient();

         return m;
     }
 }

public class TestDerived : TestBase
 {
     public override string Name
     {
         get
         {
             return "";
         }
         set
         {
         }
     }

     public new static MappingConfiguration GetMapping()
     {
         MappingConfiguration<TestDerived> m = new MappingConfiguration<TestDerived>();
         m.MapType().Inheritance(InheritanceStrategy.Vertical);

         m.HasProperty(p => p.Name).AsTransient();

         return m;
     }
 }

Alexander.

[PetarP]

Hello Alexander,

 OpenAccess currently supports two types of properties:
1. Properties being backed by fields.
2. Auto properties.
If you are having a non auto property that is not backed by a field you will be seeing that exception. The simple workaround for your scenario would be to cache the returned value in a field and return the field instead. Your code should look something like this:

private string name = string.Empty;
public virtual string Name
     {
         get
         {
             return this.name;
         }
         set
         {
         }
     }

All the best,
Petar
the Telerik team