Using IDbSetExtensions.AddOrUpdate with Migration Tool fail

Posted on: 2013-02-25

Using IDbSetExtensions.AddOrUpdate with Migration Tool fail if you are using a custom IDbSet.

Unable to call public, instance method AddOrUpdate on derived IDbSet type 'DataAccessLayer.Database.FilteredDbSet`1[Model.Workout]'. Method not found.

The exception above is raised when using : PM> update-database -verbose -force. The class FilteredDbSet, inherit IDbSet and should be able to use the method AddOrUpdate which is pretty useful when seeding data. But, the exception raise and the reason is that it try to get the method definition with a parameter.

 public static void AddOrUpdate<TEntity>(this IDbSet<TEntity> set, params TEntity[] entities) where TEntity : class { RuntimeFailureMethods.Requires(set != null, (string) null, "set != null"); RuntimeFailureMethods.Requires(entities != null, (string) null, "entities != null"); DbSet<TEntity> set1 = set as DbSet<TEntity>; if (set1 != null) { InternalSet<TEntity> internalSet = (InternalSet<TEntity>) set1.InternalSet; IDbSetExtensions.AddOrUpdate<TEntity>(set1, IDbSetExtensions.GetKeyProperties<TEntity>(typeof (TEntity), internalSet), entities); } else { Type type = set.GetType(); MethodInfo method = type.GetMethod("AddOrUpdate", new Type[1] { typeof (TEntity[]) }); if (method == (MethodInfo) null) throw System.Data.Entity.Resources.Error.UnableToDispatchAddOrUpdate((object) type); method.Invoke((object) set, (object[]) new TEntity[1][] { entities }); } } 

Instead, we will call the GetMethod without the second parameter.

 public static void AddOrUpdate<TEntity>(this IDbSet<TEntity> set, params TEntity[] entities) where TEntity : class { var set1 = set as DbSet<TEntity>; if (set1 != null) { System.Data.Entity.Migrations.IDbSetExtensions.AddOrUpdate(set,entities); } else { Type type = set.GetType(); MethodInfo method = type.GetMethod("AddOrUpdate");

if (method == null) throw new Exception(""); var data = new object[entities.Length]; for (int i = 0; i < entities.Length; i++) { data[i] = entities[i]; } method.Invoke(set, data); } } 

Also, you can see that we call Invoke by passing a single array of object. This is required to be able to call the method correctly.

The trick is to create the extension and to use it instead of IDbSetExtension and you will be able to