What to do if your application does not find a Persistent Class definition

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 Thomas, Telerik

Last modified

 April 6, 2012

Last modified by

 Pencho Popadiyn


DESCRIPTION

The enhanced classes have a static constructor that registers all the necessary information in a global data structure. This structure must be filled when the first Database.Get call is used because OpenAccess builds up meta information at this point in time. Microsoft’s assembly load strategy loads an assembly at the time when the first type out of the assembly is used. Because of this OpenAccess applications must instantiate one object from each assembly with persistent classes before the first Database.Get call, to be sure all necessary OpenAccess information is computed.

SOLUTION

To test if everything is correct, you can execute the code below directly before your first Database.Get call. The code prints out all the loaded assemblies, the enhanced status and all the loaded persistent classes.

C#
// Get all assemblies loaded in the current domain.
System.Text.StringBuilder strbuf = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
System.Reflection.Assembly[] assemblies =
   System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies();
 
foreach ( System.Reflection.Assembly assembly in assemblies )
{
   string name = assembly.FullName;
   strbuf.Append( name ).Append( "\r\n" );
 
   // Check if the current assembly
   // is marked with the EnhancedExAttribute.
   object[] customAttributes = assembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof (Telerik.OpenAccess.RT.EnhancedExAttribute), false);
 
   if ( customAttributes.Length == 1 )
   {
       strbuf.Append( "  Enhanced!\r\n" );
       // Print all persistent capable classes in the assembly.
       foreach ( Type t in assembly.GetTypes() )
           if ( typeof( Telerik.OpenAccess.SPI.dataobjects.PersistenceCapable )
                   .IsAssignableFrom( t ) )
               strbuf.Append( "  Persistent Type: " )
                       .Append( t.FullName ).Append( "\r\n" );
   }
}
System.Console.WriteLine( strbuf.ToString() );

VB.NET
' Get all assemblies loaded in the current domain.
Dim strbuf As New System.Text.StringBuilder()
Dim assemblies() As System.Reflection.Assembly = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()
 
For Each [assembly] As System.Reflection.Assembly In assemblies
 Dim name As String = [assembly].FullName
 strbuf.Append(name).Append(vbCrLf)
 
 ' Check if the current assembly
 ' is marked with the EnhancedExAttribute.
 Dim customAttributes() As Object = [assembly].GetCustomAttributes(GetType(Telerik.OpenAccess.RT.EnhancedExAttribute), False)
 
 If customAttributes.Length = 1 Then
  strbuf.Append(" Enhanced!" & vbCrLf)
  ' Print all persistent capable classes in the assembly.
  For Each t As Type In [assembly].GetTypes()
   If GetType(Telerik.OpenAccess.SPI.dataobjects.PersistenceCapable).IsAssignableFrom(t) Then
    strbuf.Append(" Persistent Type: ").Append(t.FullName).Append(vbCrLf)
   End If
  Next t
 End If
Next [assembly]
System.Console.WriteLine(strbuf.ToString())

If you can see that your assemblies are enhanced and all your persistent types are printed out this part is correct. If not, please create an instance of the missing Persistent Class above the code.

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