Implementing Zero Or One to Zero Or One relationship in EF Code first by Fluent API

Masoud picture Masoud · Feb 5, 2013 · Viewed 46.7k times · Source

I have two POCO classes:

Order Class:

public class Order
{
    int id;
    string code;
    int? quotationId;  //it is foreign key
    public int Id{get;set;}
    public string Code{get;set;}
    public int? QuotationId{get;set;}
    Quotation quotation;
    public virtual Quotation Quotation { get; set; }
    ....
}

Quotation Class:

public class Quotation
{
    int Id;
    string Code;
    public int Id{get;set;}
    public string Code{get;set;}
    Order order;
    public virtual Order Order { get; set; }
    ....   
}
  • Each Order may be made from one or zero quotation, and
  • each quotation may cause an order.

So I have an "one or zero" to "one or zero" relation, how can I implement this, in EF Code first by Fluent API?

Answer

Masoud picture Masoud · Feb 11, 2013

By changing pocos to:

public class Order
{
    public int OrderId { get; set; }
    public virtual Quotation Quotation { get; set; }
}
public class Quotation
{
    public int QuotationId { get; set; }
    public virtual Order Order { get; set; }
}

and using these mapping files:

public class OrderMap : EntityTypeConfiguration<Order>
{
    public OrderMap()
    {
        this.HasOptional(x => x.Quotation)
            .WithOptionalPrincipal()
            .Map(x => x.MapKey("OrderId"));
    }
}

public class QuotationMap : EntityTypeConfiguration<Quotation>
{
    public QuotationMap()
    {
        this.HasOptional(x => x.Order)
            .WithOptionalPrincipal()
            .Map(x => x.MapKey("QuotationId"));
    }
}

we will have this DB(that means 0..1-0..1):

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with special thanks to (Mr. Vahid Nasiri)