How can I store an array of doubles to database using Entity Framework Code-First with no impact on the existing code and architecture design?
I've looked at Data Annotation and Fluent API, I've also considered converting the double array to a string of bytes and store that byte to the database in it own column.
I cannot access the public double[] Data { get; set; } property with Fluent API, the error message I then get is:
The type double[] must be a non-nullable value type in order to use
it as parameter 'T'.
The class where Data is stored is successfully stored in the database, and the relationships to this class. I'm only missing the Data column.
You can do a thing like this :
[NotMapped]
public double[] Data
{
get
{
string[] tab = this.InternalData.Split(',');
return new double[] { double.Parse(tab[0]), double.Parse(tab[1]) };
}
set
{
this.InternalData = string.Format("{0},{1}", value[0], value[1]);
}
}
[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public string InternalData { get; set; }
Thank you all for your inputs, due to your help I was able to track down the best way to solve this. Which is:
public string InternalData { get; set; }
public double[] Data
{
get
{
return Array.ConvertAll(InternalData.Split(';'), Double.Parse);
}
set
{
_data = value;
InternalData = String.Join(";", _data.Select(p => p.ToString()).ToArray());
}
}
Thanks to these stackoverflow posts:
String to Doubles array and
Array of Doubles to a String
I know it is a bit expensive, but you could do this
class Primitive
{
public int PrimitiveId { get; set; }
public double Data { get; set; }
[Required]
public Reference ReferenceClass { get; set; }
}
// This is the class that requires an array of doubles
class Reference
{
// Other EF stuff
// EF-acceptable reference to an 'array' of doubles
public virtual List<Primitive> Data { get; set; }
}
This will now map a single entity (here 'Reference') to a 'list' of your Primitive class. This is basically to allow the SQL database to be happy, and allow you to use your list of data appropriately.
This may not suit your needs, but will be a way to make EF happy.
It would be far easier if you use List<double> rather then double[]. You already have a table that stores your Data values. You probably have foreign key from some table to the table where your double values are stored. Create another model that reflects the table where doubles are stored and add foreign key mappings in the mappings class. That way you will not need to add some complex background logic which retrieves or stores values in a class property.
In my opinion almost all other answers work on the opposite of how it should be.
Entity EF should manage the string and the array must be generated from it. So the array must be whole read and written only when the string is accessed by EF.
A solution involving logic on Data[] is wrong because, as I wrote in a comment, you would run into paradoxical conditions. In all other conditions the variable must remain a pure array.
By putting the "get" and "set" logic in Data[], as I've seen so far, this happens:
1 - Every time an index access is made to the array, the array is automatically recreated from the string. This is a useless work, think of an iteration in a loop...
2 - when you go to set a single element it is not stored because it passes through "get" and not "set".
If you try to declare Data=new []{0,0,0} then set Data[1]=2 , going to re-read Data[1] the result is 0.
My solution is to completely turn the logic around.
public string Data_string
{
get => string.Join(';', Data??Array.Empty());
set => Data= value == null ? Array.Empty<double>() : Array.ConvertAll(value.Split(';',StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries), double.Parse);
}
[NotMapped]
public double[] Data {get;set;}
Obviously this only applies to storing and retrieving data on databases, access to Data_string is exclusive to EF.
Once the string is read from the DB it is associated to Data_string which, through set, creates the Data array.
At this point you can work on Data without affecting the string in any way, like a normal array.
When you will ask EF to save in the DB, through the get in the Data_string property, the string will be completely reconstructed based on the Data elements and then stored as a string.
Practically the string is modified only twice, at the moment of reading from the DB and at the moment of saving.
In my opinion this solution is much more efficient than operating continuously on the string.
Nathan White has the best answer (got my vote).
Here is a small improvement over Joffrey Kern's answer to allow lists of any length (untested):
[NotMapped]
public IEnumerable<double> Data
{
get
{
var tab = InternalData.Split(',');
return tab.Select(double.Parse).AsEnumerable();
}
set { InternalData = string.Join(",", value); }
}
[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public string InternalData { get; set; }
Don't use double[] use List insted.
Like this.
public class MyModel{
...
public List<MyClass> Data { get; set; }
...
}
public class MyClass{
public int Id { get; set; }
public double Value { get; set; }
}
All that solution that I see there are bad, because:
If you create table, you don't want to store data like this: "99.5,89.65,78.5,15.5" that's not valid! Firstly its a string that means if you can type letter into it and at the moment when your ASP.NET server call double.Parse it will result in FormatException and that you really don't want!
It's slower, because your server must parse the string. Why parse the string instead getting almost ready data from SQL Server to use?
i know this post is Ancient, but in case someone still needs to do something like this, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE ABOVE SOLUTIONS,
as the above solutions are EXTREMELY inefficient (Performance and Disk Space wise).., the best way is to store the array as a Byte array
public byte[] ArrayData;
[NotMapped]
public double[] Array {
get {
var OutputArray = new double[ArrayData.Length / 8];
for (int i = 0;i < ArrayData.Length / 8;i++)
OutputArray[i] = BitConverter.ToDouble(ArrayData, i * 8);
return OutputArray;
}
set {
var OutputData = new byte[value.Length * 8];
for (int i = 0;i < value.Length;i++) {
var BinaryValue = BitConverter.GetBytes(value[i]);
OutputData[(i*8)] = BinaryValue[0];
OutputData[(i*8)+1] = BinaryValue[1];
OutputData[(i*8)+2] = BinaryValue[2];
OutputData[(i*8)+3] = BinaryValue[3];
OutputData[(i*8)+4] = BinaryValue[4];
OutputData[(i*8)+5] = BinaryValue[5];
OutputData[(i*8)+6] = BinaryValue[6];
OutputData[(i*8)+7] = BinaryValue[7];
}
ArrayData = OutputData;
}
}
`
And if you need more performance, you can go for Unsafe code and use pointers .. instead of BitConverter ..
This is way better than saving double values (that can get huge) as string, then spliting the string array !! and then parsing the strings to double !!!
These getter/setters work on the whole array, but if you need to get just one item from the array, you can make a function that gets a single item from the array with a complexity of O(1) :
for Get :
public double Array_GetValue(int Index) {
return BitConverter.ToDouble(ArrayData, Index * 8);
}
for Set :
public void Array_SetValue(int Index, double Value) {
var BinaryValue = BitConverter.GetBytes(Value);
ArrayData[(Index*8)] = BinaryValue[0];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+1] = BinaryValue[1];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+2] = BinaryValue[2];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+3] = BinaryValue[3];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+4] = BinaryValue[4];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+5] = BinaryValue[5];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+6] = BinaryValue[6];
ArrayData[(Index*8)+7] = BinaryValue[7];
}
If your collection can be null or empty, and you want this to be preserved, do this:
[NotMapped]
public double[] Data
{
get => InternalData != null ? Array.ConvertAll(Data.Split(new[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries), double.Parse) : null;
set => InternalData = value != null ? string.Join(";", value) : null;
}
Also, specify [Column(TypeName = "varchar")] on the string property for a more efficient storage data type.
A perfect enhancement to #Jonas's answer will be to add the necessary annotations. So, a cleaner version would be
[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
[JsonIgnore]
public string InternalData { get; set; }
[NotMapped]
public double[] Data
{
get => Array.ConvertAll(InternalData.Split(';'), double.Parse);
set
{
InternalData = string.Join(";", value.Select(p => p.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)).ToArray());
}
}
The [JsonIgnore] Annotation will ignore the InternalData field from JSON serialization and Swagger UI.
[EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)] will hide the public method from the IDE IntelliSense
I have the following list.
Public Class Car
{
int id;
string info;
}
List<Car> cars = {
new Car(1, "[{'color': 'blue','model': 'toyota'}]"),
new Car(2, "[{'color': 'red','model': 'tesla'}]"),
new Car(3, "[{'color': 'green','model': 'honda'}]")
}
I want to return the id(3) of the Honda.
Do I need to convert the whole list to a Json, then query for the specific item.
Or can I do something like
var chosenCar = cars.Where(s => JObject.Parse(s.info)["model"].Value == "honda");
I'm attempting to read a text file, place it into an array separating each entry by \t or \n, then displaying it to a gridview. Here is my code:
private void importExcel()
{
//read in textfile and place it into a datatable
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("testfile.txt");
string[] words = reader.ReadToEnd().Split('\t','\n');
ReleasePortal.DataSource = words;
ReleasePortal.DataBind();
}
<asp:GridView ID="ReleasePortal" runat="server">
</asp:GridView>`
What ends up happening is all the data is placed into a single column even if I create extra columns in gridview. I understand how to get it to work if I were to use a database using DataTextField and DataValueField. Since I am retrieving this data from a textfile(converted from excel) it has no field identifiers and I dont understand how to put the data into the correct format in gridview. I can do this directly from the excel file but I need to do this from a text file though. Any ideas?
the words are one-dimensional array, you want to create a table. You should define a type representing the line (use correct descriptive names, of course):
public class Foo
{
public string Col0 { get; set; }
public string Col1 { get; set; }
public string Col2 { get; set; }
}
Then, you should first split the result per lines and then by columns, like this:
string[] lines = reader.ReadToEnd().Split('\n');
List<Foo> data = new List<Foo>();
foreach (var line in lines)
{
string[] words = line.Split('\n');
var gridLine = new Foo { Col0 = words[0], Col1 = words[1], Col2 = words[2] };
data.Add(gridLine);
}
ReleasePortal.DataSource = data;
ReleasePortal.DataBind();
I am learning EF5 and building a small website which simply displays some songs and singers. As a song can be sung by more than one singer and a singer will have many songs so my EF model as below.
I want to display all the list of songs with its relevant singers in a table so I wrote a query and this is so far I have.
Dim res = context.Songs _
.SelectMany(Function(song) song.Artists, Function(s, a) New With
{.SongTitle = s.SongTitle, _
.ArtistName = a.ArtistName, _
.Lyrics = s.Lyrics})
But I am having the result like below.
You will see Lucky is displayed twice in the table. I don't want that to happen. I just want to display it once but have join two singers in the Artist column. I tried to read tutorials and many forum posts but those tutorials don't get this complicated.
So how can i get change the query to return something like this?
I must write my answer with C#, hopefully you are able to translate it into VB.
I would do two changes:
First, simply use Select instead of SelectMany in this situation.
Second, introduce a named ViewModel instead of an anonymous type because it allows you to add a method or custom readonly property that will be helpful later.
The ViewModel would look like this:
public class SongViewModel
{
public string SongTitle { get; set; }
public string Lyrics { get; set; }
public IEnumerable<string> ArtistNames { get; set; }
public string ArtistNamesString
{
get { return string.Join(", ", ArtistNames); }
}
}
Then you can use this query:
var res = context.Songs.Select(s => new SongViewModel
{
SongTitle = s.SongTitle,
Lyrics = s.Lyrics,
ArtistNames = s.Artists.Select(a => a.ArtistName)
});
Now, to list the result, you can use a loop like this (example with console output):
foreach (var item in res)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("{0} {1} {2}",
item.SongTitle, item.Lyrics, item.ArtistNamesString);
}
This lists each song only once and the artist names are displayed as a comma separated list.
I'm quite new to RavenDB so sorry if my question sounds stupid. I have a class which contains a DateTime property. I store instances of this class in RavenDB. I have defined index the following way:
from doc in docs.Orders
from docItemsItem in ((IEnumerable<dynamic>)doc.Items).DefaultIfEmpty()
select new { Items_Price_Amount = docItemsItem.Price.Amount, Items_Quantity = docItemsItem.Quantity, Date = doc.Date }
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3055964/Capture.GIF <-- here's a screenshot
Here's class definition:
public class Order
{
public DateTime Date { get; set; }
public IList<OrderItem> Items { get; set; }
public string CustomerId { get; set; }
public Order()
{
Items = new List<OrderItem>();
}
}
Now, when I try to query RavenDB with the index shown above, the query yields no result at all.
var orders = session.Query<Order>("OrdersIndex").Where(o => o.Date > DateTime.Now).ToList(); // orders.Count == 0
If I omit the index from query, like this:
var orders = session.Query<Order>().Where(o => o.Date > DateTime.Now).ToList(); // orders.Count == 128
a temporary index is created and eveything works as expected.
Does anyone has any idea what's wrong with my query?
Thanks.
UPDATE
Allright, I removed Fields Date, Items,Price,Amount and Items,Quantity via management studio (shown in screenshot), and now the query works fine. Anyone any idea why? What's the purpose to define those fields explicitly?
Check that the date in the Index is stored as Index(x => x.Date, FieldIndexing.Default).
I had it set to FieldIndexing.Analysed, and wasn't getting the correct results back.
I need to read up more on the difference between the different FieldIndexing options :)