Hello,

ILinqMetaData has this method:

IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity(int typeOfEntity);

Which isn't particularly useful for any abstraction where the entities enum isn't around. What would be much more helpful is a generic factory method, ie:

IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity<TEntity>();

The (generated) implementation of such being something like:

public IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity<TEntity>(){
  return new DataSource2<TEntity>(_adapterToUse, new ElementCreator(), _customFunctionMappings, _contextToUse);
}

Currently I always seem to need the generated strong typed LinqMetaData class to create an IQueryable... unless there is another way?

worldspawn wrote:

Currently I always seem to need the generated strong typed LinqMetaData class to create an IQueryable... unless there is another way?

Could you please explain a little bit more why this implementation affects you? (show us some code snippet).

worldspawn wrote:

Hello,

ILinqMetaData has this method:

IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity(int typeOfEntity);

Which isn't particularly useful for any abstraction where the entities enum isn't around. What would be much more helpful is a generic factory method, ie:

IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity<TEntity>();

The (generated) implementation of such being something like:

public IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity<TEntity>(){
  return new DataSource2<TEntity>(_adapterToUse, new ElementCreator(), _customFunctionMappings, _contextToUse);
}

Currently I always seem to need the generated strong typed LinqMetaData class to create an IQueryable... unless there is another way?

I just added an extension method:

    public static class LinqMetaDataExtensions
    {
        public static IQueryable<TEntity> CreateQueryable<TEntity>(this LinqMetaData metaData) where TEntity : class 
        {
            return new DataSource2<TEntity>(metaData.AdapterToUse, new ElementCreator(), metaData.CustomFunctionMappings, metaData.ContextToUse);
        }
    }

However, I would agree I would love to see the IDataSource GetQueryableForEntity<TEntity>() generic form added to the ILinqMetaData interface for abstraction purposes.

We'll look at this for a future v3.x version.

Otis wrote:

We'll look at this for a future v3.x version.

That would be nice! BTW There are similar methods in this class EntityHelper.cs