How do you configure the DbContext when creating Migrations in Entity Framework Core?

Question

Is there way that dependency injection can be configured/bootstrapped when using Entity Framework\'s migration commands?

Entity Framework Core supports dependency in

Answer 1

As @bricelam commented this functionality does not yet exist in Entity Framework 7. This missing functionality is tracked by GitHub issue aspnet/EntityFramework#639

In the mean time, the easier workaround I found was to utilize a global state rather than hassle with subclassing. Not usually my first design choice but it works well for now.

In MyDbContext:

public static bool isMigration = true;

protected override void OnConfiguring( DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder )
{
    // TODO: This is messy, but needed for migrations.
    // See https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework/issues/639
    if ( isMigration )
    {
        optionsBuilder.UseSqlServer( "" );
    }
}

In Startup.ConfigureServices().

public IServiceProvider ConfigureServices( IServiceCollection services )
{
    MyContext.isMigration = false;

    var configuration = new Configuration().AddJsonFile( "config.json" );
    services.AddEntityFramework( configuration )
        .AddSqlServer()
        .AddDbContext( config => config.UseSqlServer() );
    // ...
}

(The configuration code actually lives in an Autofac Module in my case.)