Question

I have the following SQL snippet within a select statement:

CASE 
WHEN wot.id LIKE '%Correct%' THEN 'Corrective'
WHEN wot.id LIKE '%Pred%' THEN 'Preventative'
ELSE 'OTHER'
END
AS worktype

which I have translated into LINQ to SQL like this:

WorkType = groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Correct") ? "Corrective" : "OTHER" || 
WorkType = groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Pred") ? "Preventative" : "OTHER"

If I add one or the other by itself into the select statement, then the query works fine. However, when I add the OR statement and try to use both statements in the select, I get an “Invalid anonymous type member declarator. Anonymous type members must be declared with a member assignment, simple name or member access” error.

I’ve seen the other questions about this error and in those cases they rename one of the statements (ex. WorkType, Work_Type) in order to fix the problem. However, Worktype is the name of my output field so I need to have both be WorkType.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Solution :

it should be

WorkType = groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Correct") ? "Corrective" :
    (groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Pred") ? "Preventative" : "OTHER");

Problem:

because problem with your code is

WorkType = groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Correct") ? "Corrective" : "OTHER" ||  
WorkType = groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Pred") ? "Preventative" : "OTHER"

you are assigning value to worktype two time which is nopt possible

And even if you write the code like

WorkType = (groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Correct") ? "Corrective" : "OTHER") ||  
          ( groupItem.Key.Id.Contains("Pred") ? "Preventative" : "OTHER");

this will return boolean value either true or false…