Entity Framework Include with condition

Question

I need to filter a dealer based on id and the uncomplete checkins

Initially, it returned the dealer based only on id:

    // TODO: limit checkins to          


        

Answer 1

Your accepted solution will generate multiple database queries. As Ladislav Mrnka said a projection is the only way to pull your result with one query. The maintance of your code indeed hard. Maybe you could use an IQueryable-Extension that builds the projection dynamically and keep your code clean:

var query = this.ObjectContext.Dealers.SelectIncluding( new List>>>(){

    x => x.Groups,
    x => x.Groups.Select(y => y.Items),
    x => x.Groups.Select(y => y.Items.Select(z => z.Observations)),
    x => x.Groups.Select(y => y.Items.Select(z => z.Recommendations)),
    x => x.Checkins.Where(y => y.Complete==true),
    x => x.Checkins.Select(y => y.Inspections),
    x => x.Checkins.Select(y => y.Inspections.Select(z => z.InspectionItems))

});
var dealer = query.First();
return dealer;

You can find the extension at thiscode/DynamicSelectExtensions on github