I have setup very similar to breeze sample application which comes in sample nuget. This is the code of my api controller:
[JsonFormatter, ODataActionFilter]
public class WorkOrdersController : ApiController
{
readonly EFContextProvider<WorkOrdersContext> _contextProvider =
new EFContextProvider<WorkOrdersContext>();
public WorkOrdersController()
{
// I was thinking this may be the cause of the issue
this._contextProvider.Context.Configuration.ProxyCreationEnabled = false;
}
[HttpGet]
public string Metadata()
{
return _contextProvider.Metadata();
}
[HttpPost]
public SaveResult SaveChanges(JObject saveBundle)
{
return _contextProvider.SaveChanges(saveBundle);
}
[HttpGet]
public IQueryable<WorkOrder> WorkOrders()
{
return _contextProvider.Context.WorkOrders;
}
}
The problem I'm having is when I try to perform query over WorkOrders
action, I get 500 - Internal server error, and this is the payload of response:
{"$id":"1","$type":"System.Web.Http.HttpError, System.Web.Http","Message":"An error has occurred.","ExceptionMessage":"The action 'WorkOrders' on controller 'WorkOrders' with return type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[[WorkOrders.Domain.Models.WorkOrder, WorkOrders.Domain, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]]' cannot support querying. Ensure the type of the returned content is IEnumerable, IQueryable, or a generic form of either interface.","ExceptionType":"System.InvalidOperationException","StackTrace":" at System.Web.Http.QueryableAttribute.ValidateReturnType(Type responseContentType, HttpActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)\r\n at System.Web.Http.QueryableAttribute.OnActionExecuted(HttpActionExecutedContext actionExecutedContext)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Tracing.ITraceWriterExtensions.TraceBeginEnd(ITraceWriter traceWriter, HttpRequestMessage request, String category, TraceLevel level, String operatorName, String operationName, Action`1 beginTrace, Action execute, Action`1 endTrace, Action`1 errorTrace)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Tracing.Tracers.ActionFilterAttributeTracer.OnActionExecuted(HttpActionExecutedContext actionExecutedContext)\r\n at System.Web.Http.Filters.ActionFilterAttribute.<>c__DisplayClass2.<System.Web.Http.Filters.IActionFilter.ExecuteActionFilterAsync>b__0(HttpResponseMessage response)\r\n at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskHelpersExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass41`2.<Then>b__40(Task`1 t)\r\n at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskHelpersExtensions.ThenImpl[TTask,TOuterResult](TTask task, Func`2 continuation, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Boolean runSynchronously)"}
WorkOrders is Dbset on context:
public DbSet<WorkOrder> WorkOrders { get; set; }
I have also tried explicitly casting it to IQueryable, with no change:
[HttpGet]
public IQueryable<WorkOrder> WorkOrders()
{
return (IQueryable<WorkOrder>)_contextProvider.Context.WorkOrders;
}
The only thing that works for me is:
[HttpGet] public IEnumerable WorkOrders() { return _contextProvider.Context.WorkOrders.AsEnumerable(); }
This, however causes another problem for me on the client side, described in this question.