ASP.NET Unity.MVC DI with EF context - asp.net

Question

I'm using Unity.MVC for DI in my ASP.NET MVC 4.6 app. I have a service interface passed into the controller and that's working great. Now I want to pass in an interface to the EF context to the service but I'm not sure how to do this. I've read EF has this IObjectContextAdapter that I could pass into my service ctor and that works, but I need to then query the actual tables on inside my service from this context but because it's an IObjectContextAdapter it doesn't know my tables. How do I do this?
public class ContactService : IContactService
{
//private ContactsEntities context;
private IObjectContextAdapter context;
// test ctor
public ContactService(IObjectContextAdapter ctx)
{
context = ctx;
}
// prod ctor
public ContactService()
{
context = new ContactsEntities();
}
List<Contact> GetAllContacts()
{
return (from c in context.ObjectContext.?? // I need to query the Contacts table that would be attached to the actual context I pass in but still keep the decoupling from using an Interface passed into the ctor
}
}

Answer 1

The IObjectContextAdapter is the type of ObjectContext property of DbContext.
You should subclass DbContext e.g. ContactsDatabaseContext
public class ContactsDatabaseContext : DbContext, IContactsDatabaseContext
{
// ...
}
And then just register your ContactsDatabaseContext with your IoC container. Something like this:
container.RegisterType<IContactsDatabaseContext, ContactsDatabaseContext>();
Your ContactsDatabaseContext class and IContactsDatabaseContext interface should have properties of type DbSet<T> that refer to your tables e.g.:
IDbSet<BrandDb> Users { get; set; }
UPDATE:
Since you are using a generated file, then do this:
public partial class ContactsDatabaseContext : IContactsDatabaseContext
{
// Expose the DbSets you want to use in your services
}