Yesterday I asked this question on stackoverflow. Today I realize that if I do a GROUP BY I also need to create a new type of object.
Let's say I have some data that looks like this:
var1 var2 var3 qty
1 a 1a 50
1 a 1a 25
2 b 2b 10
2 b 2b 15
2 b 2b 10
3 a 3a 25
Here is my working LinQ query
From j In MyTable
Where j.var1 = "xxx"
Group j By Key = New With {Key .var1 = j.var1, Key .var2= j.var2, Key .var3 = j.var3} Into Group
Select New With {.var1 = Key.var1, .var2 = Key.var2, .var3 = Key.var3, .qty = Group.Sum(Function(x) x.qty)}
Actually I use Entity Framework and the code look more like this
Dim foo = (From j In dbContext.MyTable
Where j.var1 = anotherVariable
Group j By Key = New With {Key .var1 = j.var1, Key .var2= j.var2, Key .var3 = j.var3} Into Group
Select New With {.var1 = Key.var1, .var2 = Key.var2, .var3 = Key.var3, .quantity = Group.Sum(Function(x) x.Qty)}).ToArray()
foo is a new type that doesn't exist in my generated Entities. But I have an entity generated by my entity framework that can contains these. It's MyTable itself. I use a GROUP BY only to sum a column of MyTable. I query a MyTable entities and I can put the result in a MyTable entity too.
My question are
1) Can I write something like this
Dim foo = (From j In dbContext.MyTable
Where j.var1 = anotherVariable
Group j By Key = New With {Key .var1 = j.var1, Key .var2= j.var2, Key .var3 = j.var3} Into Group
Select New MyTable With {.var1 = Key.var1, .var2 = Key.var2, .var3 = Key.var3, .qty = Group.Sum(Function(x) x.qty)}).ToArray()
In this case do I need to explicitely write all the mappings ?
2) Should I change my mind. Do a simpler query without GROUP BY and try to group and sum in a VB.NET loop (For Each). Or two queries ? On to get all MyTable with a WHERE clause and another to group ?
Dim foo = dbContext.MyTable.Where(Function(p As MyTable) p.var1 = anotherVariable).ToArray()
For Each bar In foo
'Code to group and sum or another query
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