entity-framework-core - EF Core 2.0 provider specific model configuration

Question

I am trying to upgrade an EF Core 1.x project to 2.0. In 1.x I was taking advantage of provider-specific extension methods (e.g. ForSqlServerHasDefaultValueSql/ForSqliteHasDefaultValueSql or ForSqlServerHasColumnType) but these seem to have been removed in 2.0.

Since each provider has its own flavor of SQL and capabilities, I need to be able to use slightly different setups or SQL strings per provider in OnModelCreating. For example to set a default value I might have:

modelBuilder<Foo>(b =>
{
    b.Property(x => x.CreateDate)
        .IsRequired()
        .ForSqlServerHasDefaultValueSql("getutcdate()")
        .ForSqliteHasDefaultValueSql("CURRENT_TIMESTAMP");
}

How is this done in 2.0?

Answer 1

I couldn't find anything in the documentation (yet) but digging deep into the source, there is a comment in the logs of commit 747c86556b2a21526973d462626e299b9bde7b91:

Remove ForSqlServer... ForSqlite... methods for relational concepts

Part of #7166

Code can instead use

if (Database.IsSqlServer())
{
    modelBuilder.HasColumnName("MySqlServerName");
}

Therefore the snippet in the question would translate to:

modelBuilder<Foo>(b =>
{
    b.Property(x => x.CreateDate)
        .IsRequired();

    if (Database.IsSqlServer())
        b.Property(x => x.CreateDate).HasDefaultValueSql("getutcdate()");

    if (Database.IsSqlite())
        b.Property(x => x.CreateDate).HasDefaultValueSql("CURRENT_TIMESTAMP");
}

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Kudos to @IvanStoev for pointing me to the 1.x to 2.0 upgrade documentation. Somehow my Google-fu was failing me today. On this page it clearly shows what to do:

Instead of using methods like ForSqlServerToTable, extension methods are now available to write conditional code based on the current provider in use. For example:

modelBuilder.Entity<User>().ToTable(
    Database.IsSqlServer() ? "SqlServerName" : "OtherName");