The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable

Question

I am getting this error when I GetById() on an entity and then set the collection of child entities to my new list which comes from the MVC view.

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Answer 1

If you are using AutoMapper with Entity Framework on the same class, you might hit this problem. For instance if your class is

class A
{
    public ClassB ClassB { get; set; }
    public int ClassBId { get; set; }
}

AutoMapper.Map(input, destination);

This will try to copy both properties. In this case, ClassBId is non Nullable. Since AutoMapper will copy destination.ClassB = input.ClassB; this will cause a problem.

Set your AutoMapper to Ignore ClassB property.

 cfg.CreateMap()
     .ForMember(m => m.ClassB, opt => opt.Ignore()); // We use the ClassBId