I need to do connection and schema changes at runtime using Entity Framework.
I tried the code from this: Post
I´m using that code:
public EntityConnection SetCurrentEntityConnection(string schemaName, string databaseIPAddress, int databasePort, string userName, string password, string model)
{
XmlReader[] MappingReader = new XmlReader[] { XmlReader.Create(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(model + ".msl")) };
XmlReader[] ConceptualReader = new XmlReader[] { XmlReader.Create(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(model + ".csdl")) };
var StorageReader = XmlReader.Create(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(model + ".ssdl"));
XNamespace StorageNS = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2009/02/edm/ssdl";
var StorageXml = XElement.Load(StorageReader);
foreach (var EntitySet in StorageXml.Descendants(StorageNS + "EntitySet"))
{
var SchemaAttribute = EntitySet.Attributes("Schema").FirstOrDefault();
if (SchemaAttribute != null)
SchemaAttribute.SetValue(schemaName);
}
StorageXml.CreateReader();
var Workspace = new MetadataWorkspace();
StoreItemCollection StorageCollection = new StoreItemCollection(new XmlReader[] { StorageXml.CreateReader() });
EdmItemCollection ConceptualCollection = new EdmItemCollection(ConceptualReader);
StorageMappingItemCollection MappingCollection = new StorageMappingItemCollection(ConceptualCollection, StorageCollection, MappingReader);
Workspace.RegisterItemCollection(ConceptualCollection);
Workspace.RegisterItemCollection(StorageCollection);
Workspace.RegisterItemCollection(MappingCollection);
///
/// Adjust the connection string
///
var ConnectionData = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder();
ConnectionData.Provider = "Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client";
ConnectionData.Metadata = "metadata=res://*/Model.Model.csdl|res://*/Model.Model.ssdl|res://*/Model.Model.msl";
ConnectionData.Name = "Entities";
/// Build the connection string (using Oracle EZ Connection string)
string conn = "data source=" + userName + "/" + password + "@" + databaseIPAddress + ":" + databasePort + "/" + schemaName ;
ConnectionData.ProviderConnectionString = conn;
var Connection = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(ConnectionData.Provider).CreateConnection();
Connection.ConnectionString = ConnectionData.ProviderConnectionString;
new EntityConnection(Workspace, Connection);
}
I´m running two problems:
Problem 1: The foreach loop cannot find any EntitySet to change schema.
Problem 2: I don´t know how to use the newly created EntityConnection in my EF Application. I normally use:
Entity dbContext = new Entity();
And start doing queries on my dbContext, but I don´t know how to handle the EntityConnection and what should be done with it. So, what is the relation between the newly created EntityConnection and the original DbContext.
By the way, I´m using DatabaseFirst for Oracle. The DMDX doesn´t generate Entity constructor with connection parameters.
Thanks for any help. This is driving me crazy...