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What's new in EF7: Custom RevEng Templates #3995

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Resolves #3976

@bricelam bricelam requested a review from a team August 23, 2022 22:39

For large models, the OnModelCreating method of the DbContext class can become unmanageably large. One way to address this is to use `IEntityTypeConfiguration<T>` classes. See [Creating and configuring a model](xref:core/modeling/index#grouping-configuration) for more information about these classes.

To scaffold these classes, you can use a third template called `EntityTypeConfiguration.t4`. Like the `EntityType.t4` template, it gets used for each entity type in the model and uses the `EntityType` template parameter.
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Where can we get a sample of this template?

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AFAIK one doesn't exist yet. 🙂

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An example would be great 🥳

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+1 We hope to provide it (and other template flavors) eventually. Probably as a community-driven project.
Here's the gist of what it would look like:

<#@ parameter name="EntityType" type="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Metadata.IEntityType" #>
<#@ parameter name="NamespaceHint" type="System.String" #>
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;

namespace <#= NamespaceHint #>;

public class <#= EntityType.Name #>Configuration : IEntityTypeConfiguration<<#= EntityType.Name #>>
{
    public void Configure(EntityTypeBuilder<<#= EntityType.Name #>> builder)
    {
<#
    // TODO: Move code from DbContext.t4 to here
#>
    }
}

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I will have a play with it. I already have a DbContext splitting option that can use this.

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Looks great! Thanks for doing this.

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