Question

I need to add this simple statement to each SQL query, per table:

WHERE Deleted = 0

Is there any easy way of doing? I mean I need to filter all records, preferrably in the edmx file.

Answer 1

Sounds like you want to add a WHERE to your object sets by default. I don’t know if you can do that by default, but a couple ways I can think of to accomplish this are:

1) Use views to give you the WHERE clause and build your entities off the views. I’ve never actually done this, so I don’t know how well views work with EF – if you need to write back to the database, this probably wouldn’t work well.

2) Create new properties in a partial class of your EDMX, like:

partial class MyEntities
{
    public IQueryable<Foo> ActiveFoos
    {
        return Foos.Where(f => f.Deleted == 0);
    }
}
...
using (var context = new MyEntities())
{
    var foo = context.ActiveFoos.Where(f => f.Id == 1).SingleOrDefault();
}

3) Create a child context class and new out the properties – kind of ugly, but this would be reasonably transparent to the developer once it’s built.

public class CustomEntities : MyEntities
{
    public new IQueryable<Foo> Foos
    {
        get { return base.Foos.Where(f => f.Deleted == 0); }
    }
}
...
using (var context = new CustomEntities())
{
    var foo = context.Foos.Where(f => f.Id == 1).SingleOrDefault();
}