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OpenAccess ORM version
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2011.2.908.1
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| .NET version |
3.5+ |
| Visual Studio version |
2010
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| Programming language |
VB/C#
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Sometimes when OA entities are disconnected (for example, due to loading from different domain contexts or from stored procedures or due to the use of a caching or storage mechanism), two copies of the same entity will not return true from a call to object.equals. We can fix this problem by implementing IEquatable and using
ObjectKeys.
You can do this in one of a few ways. The attached example builds on my
other example that creates a common base class for all entities using code generation templates. You can alternatively manually create the base class and create partial class definitions for all of your entities and add the inheritance on each entity. The other option is to create a helper class that implements IEqualityComparer<T> or IEqualityComparer and use this whenever you need an ObjectKey-based equality comparison.
In order to implement the IEquatable<T> interface and override the base equals and GetHashCode functions, all you need to add is the following code to your base entities class (I'm assuming your base class is called EntitiesBase - change this as needed):
C#:
using System;
using Telerik.OpenAccess;
using Telerik.OpenAccess.SPI.dataobjects;
namespace SofiaCarRental
{
public partial class EntitiesBase : IEquatable<EntitiesBase>
{
bool System.IEquatable<EntitiesBase>.Equals(EntitiesBase other)
{
if (ReferenceEquals(this, other))
{
return true;
}
if (other == null)
{
return false;
}
if (Database.GetContext(this) != null && Database.GetContext(other) != null)
{
object myKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(this);
object otherKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(other);
return myKey.Equals(otherKey);
}
else
{
return base.Equals(other);
}
}
public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
if (ReferenceEquals(this, obj))
{
return true;
}
if (obj == null)
{
return false;
}
object pcObj = obj as PersistenceCapable;
if (pcObj != null)
{
if (Database.GetContext(this) != null && Database.GetContext(pcObj) != null)
{
object myKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(this);
object otherKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(pcObj);
return myKey.Equals(otherKey);
}
}
//otherwise, use base implementation
return base.Equals(obj);
}
public override int GetHashCode()
{
if (Database.GetContext(this) != null)
{
object myKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(this);
return myKey.GetHashCode();
}
else
{
return base.GetHashCode();
}
}
}
}
VB:
Imports Telerik.OpenAccess
Imports Telerik.OpenAccess.SPI.dataobjects
Partial Public Class EntitiesBase
Implements IEquatable(Of EntitiesBase)
Public Function Equals1(other As EntitiesBase) As Boolean Implements System.IEquatable(Of EntitiesBase).Equals
If ReferenceEquals(Me, other) Then
Return True
End If
If other Is Nothing Then
Return False
End If
If Database.GetContext(Me) IsNot Nothing AndAlso Database.GetContext(other) IsNot Nothing Then
Dim myKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(Me)
Dim otherKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(other)
Return myKey.Equals(otherKey)
Else
Return MyBase.Equals(other)
End If
End Function
Public Overrides Function Equals(obj As Object) As Boolean
If ReferenceEquals(Me, obj) Then
Return True
End If
If obj Is Nothing Then
Return False
End If
Dim pcObj = TryCast(obj, PersistenceCapable)
If pcObj IsNot Nothing Then
If Database.GetContext(Me) IsNot Nothing AndAlso Database.GetContext(pcObj) IsNot Nothing Then
Dim myKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(Me)
Dim otherKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(pcObj)
Return myKey.Equals(otherKey)
End If
End If
'otherwise, use base implementation
Return MyBase.Equals(obj)
End Function
Public Overrides Function GetHashCode() As Integer
If Database.GetContext(Me) IsNot Nothing Then
Dim myKey = ObjectKey.CreateWithVersion(Me)
Return myKey.GetHashCode()
Else
Return MyBase.GetHashCode()
End If
End Function
End Class
In implementation using IEqualityComparer<T> or IEqualityComparer would be very similar to the System.IEquatable<EntitiesBase>.Equals and Equals() definitions, respectively.
Please note that if you are using my
common base class example, do not put this code in the EntitiesBase.generated.[cs/vb] file or it will be overwritten. Also, as with the common base class example, be aware
that you will need to update the location of the code generation template and the RLINQ file before using the sample. To do this, open the domain model with an XML editor, find the following XML paths and update the node values (representing directories and files) to match your local ones:
DomainModel \ ModelSettings \ CodeGenerationSettings \ OutputPath - the project folder
DomainModel \ ModelSettings \ CodeGenerationSettings \ CustomTemplateFileName - location of the DefaultTemplate[Language].tt file
DomainModel \ ModelSettings \ SchemaUpdateSetting \ DeploymentDirectory - the project folder
The example solution also includes a console application the demonstrates the difference between the base object.equals and the ObjectKey based implementation.
Hope this helps.