abp/docs/en/Tutorials/Part-7.md

Web Application Development Tutorial - Part 7: Authors: Database Integration

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    "UI": ["MVC","NG"],
    "DB": ["EF","Mongo"]
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About This Tutorial

In this tutorial series, you will build an ABP based web application named Acme.BookStore. This application is used to manage a list of books and their authors. It is developed using the following technologies:

• {{DB_Text}} as the ORM provider.
• {{UI_Value}} as the UI Framework.

This tutorial is organized as the following parts;

• Part 1: Creating the server side
• Part 2: The book list page
• Part 3: Creating, updating and deleting books
• Part 4: Integration tests
• Part 5: Authorization
• Part 6: Authors: Domain layer
• Part 7: Authors: Database Integration (this part)
• Part 8: Authors: Application Layer

Download the Source Code

This tutorials has multiple versions based on your UI and Database preferences. We've prepared two combinations of the source code to be downloaded:

• MVC (Razor Pages) UI with EF Core
• Angular UI with MongoDB

Introduction

This part explains how to configure the database integration for the Author entity introduced in the previous part.

DB Context

{{if DB=="EF"}}

Open the BookStoreDbContext in the Acme.BookStore.EntityFrameworkCore project and add the following DbSet property:

public DbSet<Author> Authors { get; set; }

Then open the BookStoreDbContextModelCreatingExtensions class in the same project and add the following lines to the end of the ConfigureBookStore method:

builder.Entity<Author>(b =>
{
    b.ToTable(BookStoreConsts.DbTablePrefix + "Authors",
        BookStoreConsts.DbSchema);

    b.ConfigureByConvention();
    
    b.Property(x => x.Name)
        .IsRequired()
        .HasMaxLength(AuthorConsts.MaxNameLength);
});

This is just like done for the Book entity before, so no need to explain again.

{{else if DB=="Mongo"}}

TODO, for MongoDB

{{end}}

Implementing the IAuthorRepository

{{if DB=="EF"}}

Create a new class, named EfCoreAuthorRepository inside the Acme.BookStore.EntityFrameworkCore project (in the Authors folder) and paste the following code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Dynamic.Core;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Acme.BookStore.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Volo.Abp.Domain.Repositories.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Volo.Abp.EntityFrameworkCore;

namespace Acme.BookStore.Authors
{
    public class EfCoreAuthorRepository
        : EfCoreRepository<BookStoreDbContext, Author, Guid>,
            IAuthorRepository
    {
        public EfCoreAuthorRepository(
            IDbContextProvider<BookStoreDbContext> dbContextProvider)
            : base(dbContextProvider)
        {
        }

        public async Task<Author> FindByNameAsync(string name)
        {
            return await DbSet.FirstOrDefaultAsync(author => author.Name == name);
        }

        public async Task<List<Author>> GetListAsync(
            int skipCount,
            int maxResultCount,
            string sorting,
            string filter = null)
        {
            return await DbSet
                .WhereIf(
                    !filter.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(),
                    author => author.Name.Contains(filter)
                 )
                .OrderBy(sorting)
                .Skip(skipCount)
                .Take(maxResultCount)
                .ToListAsync();
        }
    }
}

• Inherited from the EfCoreAuthorRepository, so it inherits the standard repository method implementations.
• WhereIf is a shortcut extension method of the ABP Framework. It adds the Where condition only if the first condition meets (it filters by name, only if the filter was provided). You could do the same yourself, but these type of shortcut methods makes our life easier.
• sorting can be a string like Name, Name ASC or Name DESC. It is possible by using the System.Linq.Dynamic.Core NuGet package.

{{else if DB=="Mongo"}}

TODO, for MongoDB

{{end}}