Entity Framework include filter child collection

Question

I have some difficulty to add some filter condition for included items in my LINQ query. My query is like

var item = _Context.Order.Include("Inner")
           .Include("Inner.first")
           .Include("Inner.second")
           .Where(x => ( !(x.IsDeleted) && (x.IsActive) && 
                 (x.itemid == id))).FirstOrDefault();

In the above code "Inner" is another list of item. Now i need to filter inner items. I only need inner item with filter condition inner.isDeleted = true.

Query should return a class like,

public class Order
{

    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List<InnerDetails> Inner{ get; set; }
    public bool IsDeleted { get; set; }
}

and InnerDetails class like

public class InnerDetails 
{

    public string Sample { get; set; }
    public bool IsDeleted { get; set; }
    public int firstId { get; set; }
    public int secondID { get; set; }
    public First first{ get; set; }
    public Second second{ get; set; }
}

Can anyone suggest me a better approach to do this because i am new in LINQ and EF

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I'm the owner of the project Entity Framework Plus

EF+ Query IncludeFilter feature allows filtering related entities.

var item = _Context.Order
           .IncludeFilter(x => x.Inner.Where(y => y.IsDeleted))
           .IncludeFilter(x => x.Inner.Where(y => y.IsDeleted).Select(y => y.first))
           .IncludeFilter(x => x.Inner.Where(y => y.IsDeleted).Select(y => y.second))
           .Where(x => ( !(x.IsDeleted) && (x.IsActive) && 
                 (x.itemid == id))).FirstOrDefault();

Note: You cannot mix Include & IncludeFilter.

Wiki: EF+ Query IncludeFilter

EDIT: Answer sub-question

But we can achieve this using EF only

Yes, under the hood, my library uses a similar solution as projection

var item = _Context.Order.Select(x => new {
                Order = x,
                Inner = x.Inner.Where(y => y.IsDeleted),
                first = x.Inner.Where(y => y.IsDeleted).Select(y => y.first)
                second = x.Inner.Where(y => y.IsDeleted).Select(y => y.second)
            })
            .Where(x => ( !(x.IsDeleted) && (x.IsActive) && (x.itemid == id)))
            .FirstOrDefault()
            .Select(x => x.Order)
            .FirstOrDefault();

Note: Code have not been tested

EDIT: Answer comment

I came across this issue in EF Core. Are you going to implement IncludeFilter also in the EF+Core version

Unfortunately, even the latest EF Core version still has issues with projection and cause N+1 queries. The feature will be available when a new version (stable or pre-release) will no longer have this issue.