Reputation: 5109
I have the following object structure.
public class Study
{
public Guid? PreviousStudyVersionId { get; set; }
public Guid StudyId { get; set; }
//Other members left for brevity
}
It is persisted using entity Framework code first.
It results in a table like this
PreviousStudyVersionId StudyId
EF90F9DC-C588-4136-8AAE-A00E010CE87B E4315CFD-9638-4225-998E-A00E010CEEEC
NULL 1C965285-788A-4B67-9894-3D0D46949F11
1C965285-788A-4B67-9894-3D0D46949F11 7095B746-8D32-4CC5-80A9-A00E010CE0EA
7095B746-8D32-4CC5-80A9-A00E010CE0EA EF90F9DC-C588-4136-8AAE-A00E010CE87B
Now I want to query all studyId's recursive. So I came up with the following solution:
So when I call the method in my repository GetAllStudyVersionIds(new Guid("7095B746-8D32-4CC5-80A9-A00E010CE0EA")) it returns me all 4 the studyId's.
public IEnumerable<Guid> GetAllStudyVersionIds(Guid studyId)
{
return SearchPairsForward(studyId).Select(s => s.Item1)
.Union(SearchPairsBackward(studyId).Select(s => s.Item1)).Distinct();
}
private IEnumerable<Tuple<Guid, Guid?>> SearchPairsForward(Guid studyId)
{
var result =
GetAll().Where(s => s.PreviousStudyVersionId == studyId).ToList()
.Select(s => new Tuple<Guid, Guid?>(s.StudyId, s.PreviousStudyVersionId));
result = result.Traverse(a => SearchPairsForward(a.Item1));
return result;
}
private IEnumerable<Tuple<Guid, Guid?>> SearchPairsBackward(Guid studyId)
{
var result = GetAll().Where(s => s.StudyId == studyId).ToList()
.Select(s => new Tuple<Guid, Guid?>(s.StudyId, s.PreviousStudyVersionId));
result = result.Traverse(a => a.Item2.HasValue ? SearchPairsBackward(a.Item2.Value) : Enumerable.Empty<Tuple<Guid, Guid?>>());
return result;
}
This is the implementetion of my extension method.
public static class MyExtensions
{
public static IEnumerable<T> Traverse<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, IEnumerable<T>> fnRecurse)
{
foreach (var item in source)
{
yield return item;
var seqRecurse = fnRecurse(item);
if (seqRecurse == null) continue;
foreach (var itemRecurse in Traverse(seqRecurse, fnRecurse))
{
yield return itemRecurse;
}
}
}
}
Is there any way of moving this closer to the database (IQueryable) and optimize this code.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 1468
Reputation: 10598
I have done this by making a recursive table function pulling all parent records based on id
and then creating a view to produce a list for each record and all the parents. Then I consume that in the EF model and associate to be able to use with LINQ.
Upvotes: 1