In the blog post ROW_NUMBER Support we saw how to implement a custom function and in the previous post Improved Value Conversion Support we realized that inserting and selecting custom types is one thing but using them for filtering is something totally different.
Let's take a query from one of the previous posts and add a WHERE clause:
var query = dbContext.OrderItems
.Select(i => new
{
...,
RowNumber = EF.Functions.RowNumber(i.ProductId)
})
.Where(i => i.RowNumber == 1);When executing the query we get a SqlException because the SQL statement is not valid.
SELECT
...,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY i.ProductId) AS RowNumber
FROM
OrderItems AS i
WHERE
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY i.ProductId) = CAST(1 AS bigint)The ROW_NUMBER is not just in SELECT but in WHERE as well because EF cannot know that the main query should be put into a sub query before accessing RowNumber, i.e. something like:
SELECT ...
FROM
(
SELECT
...,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY i.ProductId) AS RowNumber
FROM
OrderItems AS i
) t
WHERE
t.RowNumber = CAST(1 AS bigint)Probably, the easiest way is to introduce a method that gives EF a hint that the previous query should be a sub query. Something like:
var query = dbContext.OrderItems
.Select(i => new
{
...,
RowNumber = EF.Functions.RowNumber(i.ProductId)
})
.AsSubQuery()
.Where(i => i.RowNumber == 1);Fortunately, we don't have do much because internally the method AsQueryable (or rather the expression associated with it) does just that. We will just (shamelessly ab)use it:
public static class MyQueryableExtensions
{
private static readonly MethodInfo _asQueryableMethodInfo
= typeof(Queryable)
.GetMethods(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static)
.Single(m => m.Name == nameof(Queryable.AsQueryable)
&& m.IsGenericMethod);
public static IQueryable<TEntity> AsSubQuery<TEntity>(
this IQueryable<TEntity> source)
{
if (source == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(source));
if (!(source.Provider is EntityQueryProvider))
return source;
var methodCall = Expression.Call(
null,
_asQueryableMethodInfo.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(TEntity)),
source.Expression);
return source.Provider.CreateQuery<TEntity>(methodCall);
}
}Having the method AsSubQuery we get the expected results.
