Single Row Table in Entity Framework 6
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you can make one of the columns the primary and also only allow one value. Unfortunately the current version of the api currently supports the default
public class StatusIdentifer
{
[DefaultValue("1")]
[Key]
public int id {get; set}; //set can be removed here?
public bool status {get:set;} //your boolean value
}
the trick is not to expose any set methods for id.
at the database level, you can still break the paradigm. The answer here talks about how to create a check constraint
public void InitializeDatabase(MyRepository context) {
if (!context.Database.Exists() || !context.Database.ModelMatchesDatabase()) {
context.Database.DeleteIfExists();
context.Database.Create();
context.ObjectContext.ExecuteStoreCommand("CREATE UNIQUE CONSTRAINT...");
context.ObjectContext.ExecuteStoreCommand("CREATE INDEX...");
context.ObjectContext.ExecuteStoreCommand("ETC...");
}
}
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With a bit of research, I came up with this solution. I created an initializer for the database (because ExecuteSqlCommand cannot be called in the OnModelCreating method).
class UserDbInitializer : CreateDatabaseIfNotExists<UserDbContext>
{
protected override void Seed(UserDbContext context)
{
context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
"CREATE TABLE __Lock(" +
"Id char(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'X'," +
"Lock bit NOT NULL," +
"CONSTRAINT PK_LOCK PRIMARY KEY (Id)," +
"CONSTRAINT CK_LOCK_Locked CHECK (Id='X'))"
);
context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand(
"INSERT INTO __Lock VALUES('X', 0)"
);
base.Seed(context);
}
}
And in UserDbContext the following property:
public bool Locked
{
get
{
return Database.SqlQuery<bool>("SELECT Lock FROM __Lock").SingleAsync().Result;
}
set
{
if (value)
Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("UPDATE __Lock SET Lock = 1");
else
Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("UPDATE __Lock SET Lock = 0");
}
}
Hope this helps others :)
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