I have, what I think is a very well structured project, finally. After reading Fowler's onion architectu开发者_JAVA百科re, learning Ninject for IOC/DI and tweaking my Psuedo repository classes, I am using EF 4.1 so DbSet and DbContext supply the repository for the most part; I am now faced with the irritating dependency on Entity Framework when wanting to "Include" other Entities / Related Entities in my repository.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to break this dependency? For example, I have a service layer that makes calls to Repository As soon as I decide to use .Include I am bound to the fat and heavy Entity Framework... Should I go with .Join or can EF be abstracted in some way?
Julie Lerman has a post on her blog where she shows an Include extension method on IQueryable<T>
, which allows you to use Include in your code and not break your unit tests:
public static class MyExtensions
{
public static IQueryable<TSource> Include<TSource>
(this IQueryable<TSource> source, string path)
{
var objectQuery = source as ObjectQuery<TSource>;
if (objectQuery != null)
{
return objectQuery.Include(path);
}
return source;
}
}
See her full blog post here:
Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository Part 5: IObjectSet and Include
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