Hi all the below solution works in that it creates a record in the MeetingRoomRequest table and also adds the associated amenities to that request into the MeetingRoomRequestAmenityLink table. However it just feels a bit clunky, so I was wondering if there is a nicer solution out there (i.e. not having to create 2 context instances) using MVC 3 and Entity Framework??
Please note i've set up the necessary relationships (one to many) in SQL Server and Entity Framework.
Also please note AmenityList is an array of id's (e.g. [1,2,4])
private readonly IDataRepository<MeetingRoomRequest> _meetingRoomRequestRepository = new DataRepository<MeetingRoomRequest>();
private readonly IDataRepository<MeetingRoomRequestAmenityLink> _meetingRoomRequestAmenityLinkRepository = new DataRepository<MeetingRoomRequestAmenityLink>();
var meetingRoomRequestToAdd = new MeetingRoomRequest
{
User = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.User,
UserEmail = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.UserEmail,
Title = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.Title,
Comments = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.Comments,
StartDateTime = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.StartTime,
EndDateTime = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.EndTime,
RequestStatusID = (int)Enums.RequestStatus.New,
AttendeeCount = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.AttendeeCount,
AttendeeType = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.AttendeeType,
OfficeID = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.OfficeId,
LocationID = meetingRoomRequestViewModel.LocationId,
};
_meetingRoomRequestRepository.Add(meetingRoomRequestToAdd);
_meetingRoomRequestRepository.SaveChanges();
var meetingRoomRequestAdded = meetingRoomRequestToAdd;
foreach (var item in meetingRoomRequestViewModel.AmenityList)
{
var meetingRoomRequestAmenityLinkToAdd = new MeetingRoomRequestAmenityLink
{
AmenityID = item,
MeetingRoomRequestID = meetingRoomRequestAdded.MeetingRoomRequestID
};
_meetingRoomRequestAmenityLinkRepository.Add(meetingRoomRequestAmenityLinkToAdd);
_meetingRoomRequestAmenityLinkRepository.SaveChanges();
}