Question

This is my code:

 public void  DeleteFolder(Entities.DocumentFolder folder)
    {
         DeleteFilesFromServer(folder.Id);
        _dbContext.Entry(folder).State = EntityState.Deleted;
        _dbContext.SaveChanges();          
    }

   public void  DeleteFilesFromServer(int id)
   {
       var allDocuments = _dbContext.Document.Where(x => x.FolderId == id).ToList();
       foreach (var filePath in allDocuments.Select(document => HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Documents/") + document.DocumentFileName).Where(System.IO.File.Exists))
       {
           System.IO.File.Delete(filePath);
       }
   }


 public class DocumentFolder
    {
      public DocumentFolder()
      {
          Documents=new List<Document>();
      }
      public int Id { get; set; }
      public string FolderName { get; set; }
      public int ParentFolderId { get; set; }
      public List<Document> Documents { get; set; }
    }
  public class Document
  {
      public int Id { get; set; }
      public string DocumentName { get; set; }
      public string DocumentFileName { get; set; }
      public int FolderId { get; set; }
      public virtual DocumentFolder Folder { get; set; }
  }

By executing the delete operation I got the following exception:

System.InvalidOperationException: The operation failed: The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable. When a change is made to a relationship, the related foreign-key property is set to a null value. If the foreign-key does not support null values, a new relationship must be defined, the foreign-key property must be assigned another non-null value, or the unrelated object must be deleted.

If I remove the DeleteFilesFromServer(int id) method the deletion working. Can someone help me?

Answer 1

If you want to delete the DocumentFolder, you need to delete the Document objects related to the DocumentFolder because in your model the field Folder is not nullable. This happens only if the dbContext knows that the the Document objects exist, i.e. if you load the documents with the Select method.