Retrieving fluent configuration programmatically without instantiating DbContext

Question

I have a DbContext derived class whose member entity classes are configured using Fluent API. I want to retrieve these configurations and relationships programmatically. the cod

Answer 1

Well, you need to load the context because it needs to call OnModelBuilding(DbModelBuilder) at least once to do it's business; otherwise there is no model to interrogate.

If you want, you can store off the information as XML using EdmxWriter;

    public static string ToEdmx(this System.Data.Entity.DbContext context)
    {
        var sb = new StringBuilder();

        using (var textWriter = new StringWriter(sb))
        using (var xmlWriter = System.Xml.XmlWriter.Create(textWriter, new System.Xml.XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true, IndentChars = "    " }))
        {
            System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.EdmxWriter.WriteEdmx(context, xmlWriter);
            textWriter.Flush();
        }

        return sb.ToString();
    }

This will give you an XML document with the data model. You can probably save that to disk in one process, and interrogate that file in your TT file.