Question

Repository pattern – Switch out the database and switch in XML files.

Hello

I have an asp.net MVC 2.0 project and I have followed the Repository pattern.

Periodically, I am losing access to the database server so I want to have another mechanism in place (XML files) to continue developing. It is not possible to have a local version of the db unfortunately!

I thought this would be relatively easy using the Repository pattern, to switch out the db repositories and switch in XML versions.
However, I am having real trouble coming up with a solution.

I have tried LinqToXML but then ran into problems trying to return a List of News items as the LinqToXML ToList returns Generic.List

Should I be mapping the XElement list over to the News list by hand?
It just seems a bit clunky compared to LinqToSQL attributes on the News class and then simply doing a Table…..ToList();

Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Just parse using Linq-To-XML. Something like:

(from a in b
where b.Element("type").Value == "test"
select new c(){d=b.Element("prop").Value}).ToList();