Querying using OData and asp.net MVC webapi against a NHibernate database - nhibernate

I doubt this is just specific to NHibernate. But I have code as follows....
public class ClientController : ApiController
{
// GET /api/<controller>
public IQueryable<Api.Client> Get()
{
return Repositories.Clients.Query().Select(c => Mapper.Map<Client, Api.Client>(c));
}
I basically want to Query the database using the Odata criteria.... get the relevant 'Client' objects, and the convert them to the DTO 'Api.Client'.
But... the code as is, doesn't work. Because NHibernate doesn't know what to do the with the Mapper.... It really wants the query to come before the .Select. But I'm not sure I can get the Odata Query first?
It will work if I do
return Repositories.Clients.Query().Select(c => Mapper.Map<Client, Api.Client>(c)).ToList().AsQueryable();
But that's a bit sucky as you have to get ALL the clients from the database to do the OData query on.
Is there anyway to get the "Select" to happen after the OData query? Or another way to approach this?

I did not test it yet but the Open Source project NHibernate.OData could be useful for you.

The problem is that you are trying to execute C# code (Mapper.Map) inside the NH call (that is translated to SQL)
You'd have to map Api.Client manually, or create a Mapper implementation that returns an Expression<Func<Client, Api.Client>> and pass it directly as a parameter to Select().
Even with that, I'm not sure if NHibernate will translate it. But you can try.

AutoMapper supports this scenario with the Queryable Extensions
public IQueryable<Api.Client> Get() {
return Repositories.Clients.Query().Select(c => Mapper.Map<Client, Api.Client>(c));
}
becomes
public IQueryable<Api.Client> Get() {
return Repositories.Clients.Query().ProjectTo<Api.Client>(mapper.ConfigurationProvider);
}

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OData with EFCore - why no WHERE clause?

I haven't messed with OData in a while, but I remember it being really useful. So I've gone for a .NetCore 3.1 EFCore + OData architecture for my API. With a view to make it fully generic etc. etc.
Doing a little test, I can get the expected results from my browser: e.g.
https://localhost:44310/things?someidfield=44
Cool I get back the JSON I was expecting! But it's sooo slow, why? Looking at the SQL (Profiler) I can see it has no WHERE clause, it's getting everything from the database and filtering it in memory, on half a million records?
What am I missing here? I've tried a number of ways to write the GET method. Starting with not passing any queryOptions (which worked! but same result underneath) and then the below where I explicitly apply the options to by EFCore entity.
[HttpGet]
[EnableQuery]
public async Task<IEnumerable<thing>> GetThingsAsync(ODataQueryOptions<thing> queryOptions)
{
return await queryOptions.ApplyTo(DB.thing).Cast<thing>().ToListAsync();
}
The result set is being loaded in memory because you're calling ToListAsync() and returning an IEnumerable.
If your GetThingsAsync method returns an IQueryable<T> (instead of IEnumerable<T>), then the query will be applied to the database and only the filtered data will be fetched.
If DB.thing is an EFCore DbSet (which implements IQueryable<T>), then you can simplify your method as
[HttpGet]
[EnableQuery]
public Task GetThingsAsync()
{
return DB.thing;
}
Furthermore, like some in the comment already mentioned, the correct syntax for filtering in your case would be ?$filter=someidfield eq 44

executing a sql code for creating a table and database in zend framework

I wrote a sql script and in it I created a table ;
Now I need to know ,how I can execute this script? (with which codes?)
And I have another question : where? where I must write this codes?(which folder in zend project?)
if it is possible for you please explain with an example.thanks
Creating tables in the database
Zend Framework is not supposed to be the one creating the tables, thus, my suggestion is to run those scripts in other environment.
The fastest one is, probably, the very own SQL shell, but you can use another software such as MySQLWorkbench if you are using MySQL.
Once the tables are created, the access to the tables is made this way:
Introduction
When you are using Zend Framework, you are making use of the MVC pattern. I suggest you to read what is that: Wikipedia MVC
If you read the Wikipedia link, you probably know now that the acess to the database is going to be made by the model.
Thus, if you followed the recommended project structure that Zend provides you will have a models folder under your application folder. There, you are supposed to implement the classes that will make access to the DB.
But well... you now know where to locate those classes but you will ask me: how? It's easy if you know where to search. ZF provides an abstract class called Zend_Db_Table_Abstract that has all the methods that will make your life easier talking about interaction with your database's tables. This is the class that your classes should implement.
Example
Let's suppose you've got a page in your website in which you want to show to the user a list of products of your local store. You have a table in your database called "products" in which you have all the useful information such us name, price and availability.
You will have a controller with an action called indexAction() or listAction() this action is prepared to send the data to your view and will look like:
class Store_ProductsController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
public function indexAction(){
//TODO: Get data from the DataBase into $products variable
$this->view->products = $products;
}
}
And your view file will that that products variable and do sutff with it.
But now comes the magic, you will have a class that will access to the database as I've said, it'll be like:
class Model_Store_Products extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract{
protected $_name = 'products';
public function getAllProducts(){
$select = $this->$select()
->from(array('P'=>$this->_name),
array('id', 'name', 'price', availability));
$productsArray = $this->fetchAll($select);
return $productsArray;
}
}
And ta-da, you have your array of products ready to be used by the controller:
class Store_ProductsController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
public function indexAction(){
$model = new Model_Store_Products();
$products = $model->getAllProducts();
$this->view->products = $products;
}
}
It can be said that, since fetchAll is public function, and our select does basically nothing but set which columns do we want (it doesn't even have a where clause), in this case, it would be easier to call the fetchAll directly from the controller with no where and it will recover the whole table (all columns):
class Store_ProductsController extends Zend_Controller_Action {
public function indexAction(){
$model = new Model_Store_Products();
$products = $model->fetchAll();
$this->view->products = $products;
}
}
Thus, our function in the model is not even needed.
This is the basic information of how to access to the database using Zend Framework. Further information of how to create the Zend_Db_Table_Select object can be found here.
I hope this helps.

zend acl dynamic assertions : when/how to load the resource?

i'm creating a zend framework 2 application and i'm sort of trying to implement what is explained here:
http://ralphschindler.com/2009/08/13/dynamic-assertions-for-zend_acl-in-zf
The demonstration that the code works is really nice, but it doesn't really apply to how a framework (utilizing mvc) works. Or maybe i'm just on the wrong track...
i've created a RouteListener like this :
class RouteListener implements ListenerAggregateInterface
{
public function attach(EventManagerInterface $events)
{
$this->listeners[] = $result = $events->attach(
MvcEvent::EVENT_DISPATCH, array($this, "checkAcl"), 100
);
}
}
the method checkAcl then checks if you're allowed to do what you want to do.
The resource and action are determined like this:
$resource = $routeMatch->getParam("controller");
$action = $routeMatch->getParam("action");
And the role is determined by the identity stored in the session (which implements Zend\Permissions\Acl\Role\RoleInterface)
Following the example: how do i determine if a user is allowed to edit a certain blog-post?
By the time acl is doing it's checking, the controller hasn't loaded the blogpost yet, so i'm not sure how to approach this. Unless i duplicate the retrieval of the blogpost in the assertion, but that i'm hoping there is a better way.
I'm also using doctrine for my persistence layer and in the end i've solved this problem using doctrine's Lifecycle Events. This allows you to trigger the acl-check whenever you want: when a entity (p.e. a blog-post) is loaded, or saved, etc.

How can I resolve dependency in Castle Windsor Factory?

I read about factories in CastleWindsor but I cannot get it clear. Hope anyone could help me.
I have this typed factory in an MVC4 project.
public interface IOrderProcessorFactory
{
T Create<T>(string ProcessorName) where T : IOrderProcessor;
void Release(object service);
IOrderProcessor GetTakeAway();
IOrderProcessor GetInLocal();
}
this is register this way:
container.Register(Component.For<IOrderProcessorFactory>).AsFactory();
container.Register(Component.For<IOrderProcessor>).ImplementedBy<TakeAwayOrderProcessor>().LifestylePerWebRequest().Named("TakeAway"));
container.Register(Component.For<IOrderProcessor>().ImplementedBy<InLocalOrderProcessor>().LifestylePerWebRequest().Named("InLocal"));
If inside an MVC controller I call the factory in this way.
_orderProcessorFactory.GetTakeAway();
I get the correct one, the one named "TakeAway".
But for this I have to previous know the type. In other words, I want to call the factory get methods and pass a "name" and the factory returns the correct one.
For example in pseudo-code I want this
TakeAwayOrderProcessor processor1 = factory.GetMeProcessorCalled("TakeAway")
InLocalOrderProcessor processor2 = factory.GetMeProcessorCalled("InLocal")
I know I can pass parameters to the constructor but then I will have to select it "manually" with if name is this return this one else...
Is there any way Windsor can do this automatic, like StructureMap do with:
ObjectFactory.GetNamedInstance<IOrderProcessor>("InLocal");
You need a TypedFactoryComponentSelector

NHibernate testing, mocking ISession

I am using NHibernate and Rhinomocks and having trouble testing what I want. I would like to test the following repository method without hitting the database (where _session is injected into the repository as ISession):
public class Repository : IRepository
{
(... code snipped for brevity ...)
public T FindBy<T>(Expression<Func<T, bool>> where)
{
return _session.Linq<T>().Where(where).FirstOrDefault();
}
}
My initial approach is to mock ISession, and return an IQueryable stub (hand coded) when Linq is called. I have a IList of Customer objects I would like to query in memeory to test my Linq query code without hitting the db. And I'm not sure what this would look like. Do I write my own implementation of IQueryable? If so, has someone done this for this approach? Or do I need to look at other avenues?
Thanks!
How I've done this test is to not pass the expression to the repository, instead expose IQueryable giving the repository an interface such as:
public interface IRepository<T>
{
IQueryable<T> All();
// whatever else you want
}
Easily implemented like so:
public IQueryable<T> All()
{
return session.Linq<T>();
}
This means that instead of calling your method on the repository like:
var result = repository.FindBy(x => x.Id == 1);
You can do:
var result = repository.All().Where(x => x.Id == 1);
Or the LINQ syntax:
var result = from instance in repository.All()
where instance.Id == 1
select instance;
This then means you can get the same test by mocking the repository out directly which should be easier. You just get the mock to return a list you have created and called AsQueryable() on.
As you have pointed out, the point of this is to let you test the logic of your queries without involving the database which would slow them down dramatically.
From my point of view is this would be considered Integration Testing. NHibernate has it's own tests that it passes and it seems to me like you're trying duplicate some of those tests in your own test suite. I'd either add the NHibernate code and tests to your project and add this there along with their tests, thats if they don't have one very similiar, and use their methods of testing or move this to an Integration testing scenario and hit the database.
If it's just the fact you don't want to have to setup a database to test against you're in luck since you're using NHibernate. With some googling you can find quite a few examples of how to use SQLite to "kinda" do integration testing with the database but keep it in memory.