Trying to build an order by expression using expression trees. But I am unable to access an expression bodied property of the query result's class. This is the class structure:
public class AssetFileRecord : IAuditable, IEntity, INavigateToCustomValues
{
public AssetFileRecord()
{
this.UpdatedTimeStamp = DateTime.UtcNow;
}
public AssetFileRecord GetRecord()
{
return this;
}
public Guid Id { get; set; }
public int DisplayId { get; set; }
public string AssetTagNumber { get; set; }
[JObjectIgnore]
public virtual Account Account { get; set; }
public string AccountNumber => Account?.AccountNumber;
public string AuditTrail { get; set; }
public string OldTagNumber { get; set; }
public ActivityCode ActivityCode { get; set; }
[JObjectIgnore]
public virtual ICollection<AssetFileRecordDepreciation> AssetFileRecordDepreciations { get; set; }
// Depreciation Records
public double? AccumulatedDepreciation => Depreciation()?.AccumulatedDepreciation;
public DateTime? DepreciationAsOfDate => Depreciation()?.DepreciationAsOfDate;
public double? LifeMonths => Depreciation()?.LifeMonths;
public double? DepreciationBasis => Depreciation()?.DepreciationBasis;
public double? PeriodDepreciation => Depreciation()?.PeriodDepreciation;
private AssetFileRecordDepreciation Depreciation()
{
return AssetFileRecordDepreciations?.AsQueryable()?.OrderBy(d => d.AssetFileDepreciationBook.BookNo)?.FirstOrDefault();
}
}
I am unable to get to the property AccumulatedDepreciation which is a property of a virtual property of AssetFileRecord.
Below is the current code that works fine for any other non-expression bodied properties.
public static IQueryable<T> BuildOrderByExpression<T>(IQueryable<T> source, string sortProperty, ListSortDirection sortOrder, bool isFirstOrderTerm = true)
{
var type = typeof(T);
var property = type.GetProperty(sortProperty, BindingFlags.IgnoreCase | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
var parameter = Expression.Parameter(type, "p");
// ReSharper disable once AssignNullToNotNullAttribute
Expression orderByExp;
var map = AssetFileRecordExpressionHelper.GetExpressionEmbodiedMemberMappings();
if (!map.TryGetValue($"{type.Name}.{property.Name}", out orderByExp))
{
var propertyAccess = Expression.MakeMemberAccess(parameter, property);
orderByExp = Expression.Lambda(propertyAccess, parameter);
}
var typeArguments = new[] { type, property.PropertyType };
var methodBase = isFirstOrderTerm ? "OrderBy" : "ThenBy";
var methodName = sortOrder == ListSortDirection.Ascending ? methodBase : $"{methodBase}Descending";
var resultExp = Expression.Call(typeof(Queryable), methodName, typeArguments, source.Expression, Expression.Quote(orderByExp));
return source.Provider.CreateQuery<T>(resultExp);
}
In the above code "map" is a dictionary of that returns appropriate expression terms for the embodied members except for the ones accessed on top of Depreciation() and is as follows.
public static Dictionary<string, Expression> GetExpressionEmbodiedMemberMappings()
{
var map = new Dictionary<string, Expression>
{
{
$"{nameof(AssetFileRecord)}.{nameof(AssetFileRecord.AccountNumber)}",
(Expression<Func<AssetFileRecord, string>>) (
afr => afr.Account != null ? afr.Account.AccountNumber : null
)
}
};
return map;
}
Expression.Call does not evaluate to a valid SQL query and rather throws an exception.
((System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DbQuery<AssetFileRecord>)records).Sql = '((System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DbQuery<AssetFileRecord>)records).Sql' threw an exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException'
Intended result: It should append an order by expression to the expression tree generated in the end; while it's failing to do so, when tried to order by an expression bodied property member.
Can someone please help me get this working.