How to extend DbContext with partial class and par

问题:

I'm using EF Core DbFirst approach. My dbContext is created automatically by Scaffold-DbContext command.

I need to add additional DbSets into a dbContext and add into OnModelCreating method of dbContext some additional code but after each scaffolding that added code are erased and I have to add it each time again.

What I want to do is to create another partial dbContext class and mark protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) as a partial method

but get errors:

1. A partial method cannot have access modifiers or the virtual, abstract, override, new, sealed, or extern modifiers.
2. A partial method may not have multiple implementing declarations

Here is a pseudo code:

MyDbContext1.cs - generated by Scaffold-DbContext

public partial class MyDbContext : DbContext
    {
        public MyDbContext()
        {
        }

        public MyDbContext(DbContextOptions<MyDbContext> options)
            : base(options)
        {
        }

        public virtual DbSet<Client> Clients { get; set; }

        protected override partial void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<Client>(entity =>
            {
                // ... some code
            }
        }
    }

MyDbContext2.cs - this code I added each time into dbContext after scaffolding:

public partial class MyDbContext
    {
        public virtual DbSet<JustAnotherEntity> AnotherEntity { get; set; }

        protected override partial void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
        {
            modelBuilder.Entity<JustAnotherEntity>(entity =>
            {
                entity.HasKey(e => new {e.Id, e.IdAction, e.IdState})
                    .ForSqlServerIsClustered(false);
            });
        }
    }

回答1:

You can't override methods in a partial class because all of the "parts" become a single class. But you can accomplish this by having the main OnModelCreating call a partial method. Like this:

public partial class Db : DbContext
{
    partial void OnModelCreating2(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
       //additional config
    }
}

public partial class Db : DbContext
{

    public DbSet<Person> Persons { get; set; }

    partial void OnModelCreating2(ModelBuilder modelBuilder);
    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);

        OnModelCreating2(modelBuilder);
    }
    protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
    {
        optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer("Server=localhost;database=efcore2test;integrated security=true");
        base.OnConfiguring(optionsBuilder);
    }
}

回答2:

An alternative would be creating another context class that inherit from MyDbContext that actually include all the custom code. and then use this new class as your context. This way, there is no need to update the generated code.

public class MyDbContext2 : MyDbContext 
{
    public MyDbContext2()
    {
    }

    public MyDbContext2(DbContextOptions<MyDbContext> options)
        : base(options)
    {
    }

    public virtual DbSet<JustAnotherEntity> AnotherEntity { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
        modelBuilder.Entity<JustAnotherEntity>(entity =>
        {
            entity.HasKey(e => new {e.Id, e.IdAction, e.IdState})
                .ForSqlServerIsClustered(false);
        });
    }
}