Ardalis.Specification.EntityFrameworkCore

What's Changed

• Add support for multiple TagWith by @fiseni in #493

Full Changelog: v9.1.0...v9.2.0

• Add support for multiple TagWith multiple TagWith support? #468

What's Changed

• Add WithProjectionOf feature. by @fiseni in #460
• Fix type inference for ThenInclude with casting. by @fiseni in #466

Full Changelog: v9.0.1...v9.1.0

• Add WithProjectionOf feature Allow combination of Specification with different projections #389

• Fix type inference for ThenInclude with casting InvalidCastException when using ThenInclude on IReadOnlyCollection #463

Breaking Changes

The PreviousPropertyType is re-added to IncludeExpressionInfo . The constructors of IncludeExpressionInfo are modified.

What's Changed

• Re-add inheritance in the builders. by @fiseni in #457

Full Changelog: v9.0.0...v9.0.1

• Re-add the inheritance in the builders Add converter from ISpecificationBuilder<T, TResult> to ISpecificationBuilder<T> #456

What's Changed

• Update TFMs and reorganize solution. by @fiseni in #439
• Revise EF Core dependencies per TFM. by @fiseni in #449
• Refactor specification constructors as public. by @fiseni in #431
• Remove IEntity contract. by @fiseni in #432
• Reduce the size of specifications and avoid unnecessary memory allocations by @fiseni in #441
• Fix InMemory SearchExtension bug by @fiseni in #391
• Update and improve the builder infrastructure. by @fiseni in #442
• Improve search validator and in-memory evaluator. by @fiseni in #443
• Optimize the search EF evaluator. by @fiseni in #444
• Optimize include evaluators. by @fiseni in #447
• Simplify and minimize expression containers. by @fiseni in #448
• Add TagWith and IgnoreAutoIncludes features. by @fiseni in #451
• Add WithCacheKey extensions. by @fiseni in #452
• 397 make fields and methods protected by @eldamir in #398
• Update repository methods. by @fiseni in #450
• Refactor the test suite by @fiseni in #437
• Update GitHub workflows to use Linux hosts. by @fiseni in #440
• Update Readme files. by @fiseni in #453
• Add tests by @fiseni in #454
• Prepare for publish, version 9.0.0 by @fiseni in #455

New Contributors

• @eldamir made their first contribution in #398

Full Changelog: v8.0...v9.0.0

Breaking Changes

The "standard" use of the library remains fairly intact.

• The obsolete GetBySpec repository methods are removed.
• The IEntity interface is removed.
• The Select/SelectMany are applied at the end of the chain or in a separate Query clause. These extension methods return void and no further chaining is possible.

In this version, we refactored the internals and the building blocks significantly. The "advanced" use cases are affected by these changes. Users who have custom extensions or have been relying on the internals need to migrate accordingly.

• The expression collections no longer are initialized to a new List<T> by default and will return Enumerable.Empty<T> if empty.
• The default value for Take and Skip properties no longer is null. They're updated to a non-nullable int type with a default value of -1.
• The specification constructors no longer accept IInMemorySpecificationEvaluator and ISpecificationValidator parameters. The properties are still defined as virtual and can be overridden.
• The builder infrastructure is refactored to accommodate better flow for specs with projections. All extensions should be written for both ISpecificationBuilder<T> and ISpecificationBuilder<T, TResult> builders.
• The OrderedSpecificationBuilder and CacheSpecificationBuilder are removed.
• The in-memory SearchEvaluator is renamed to SearchMemoryEvaluator.
• The IncludeEvaluator.Default and IncludeEvaluator.Cached singleton instances are removed. Instead, use the IncludeEvaluator.Instance.
• The SpecificationEvaluator no longer accepts bool cacheEnabled parameter. The caching is applied by default wherever necessary.
• The EntityType, PropertyType, and PreviousPropertyType are removed from IncludeExpressionInfo.
• The Update and Delete repository methods return Task<int> (the affected rows).

• Update TFMs #438

• Update Specification constructors as public. #413

• Remove IEntity #414

• Reduce the Specification size. Set the initial state to null. #415

• Refactor Take/Skip state to non-nullable int. Define the default value to -1. #416

• Remove the Evaluator and Validator state from Specifications. #417

• Remove the state for the Query builder. Update it as a calculated property. #418

• Improve the specification builders. Select/SelectMany should be applied in the end. #419

• Add IsChainDiscarded thread-static field. #420

• Improve the C# implementation of the Like operator. #421

• Improve the Search in-memory evaluator. Implement a custom iterator and reduce allocations. #422

• Refactor Search validator to allocation-free implementation. #424

• Improve the Search EF evaluator. Reduce allocations. #423

• Refactor Include evaluator. Implement caching. #425

• Update expression constructs. Reduce size. #426

• Remove obsolete API #346

• Add Readme file in the NuGet package #385

Community requests:

• Add TagWith feature #428

• Add EF IgnoreAutoIncludes support #436

• Fix EnableCache to not append a dash if you pass in no args #412

• Why do the Update and Delete not returning anything? #361

Breaking Changes

The "standard" use of the library remains fairly intact.

• The obsolete GetBySpec repository methods are removed.

• The IEntity interface is removed.

• The Select / SelectMany are applied at the end of the chain or in a separate Query clause. These extension methods return void and no further chaining is possible.

In this version, we refactored the internals and the building blocks significantly. The "advanced" use cases are affected by these changes. Users who have custom extensions or have been relying on the internals need to migrate accordingly.

• The expression collections no longer are initialized to a new List<T> by default and will return Enumerable.Empty<T> if empty.

• The default value for Take and Skip properties no longer is null . They're updated to non nullable int type with a default value of -1 .

• The specification constructors no longer accept IInMemorySpecificationEvaluator and ISpecificationValidator parameters. The properties are still defined as virtual and can be overridden.

• The builder infrastructure is refactored to accommodate better flow for specs with projections. All extensions should be written for both ISpecificationBuilder<T> and ISpecificationBuilder<T, TResult> builders.

• The OrderedSpecificationBuilder and CacheSpecificationBuilder are removed.

• The in-memory SearchEvaluator is renamed to SearchMemoryEvaluator .

• The IncludeEvaluator.Default and IncludeEvaluator.Cached singleton instances are removed. Instead, use the IncludeEvaluator.Instance .

• The SpecificationEvaluator no longer accepts bool cacheEnabled parameter. The caching is applied by default wherever necessary.

• The EntityType , PropertyType , and PreviousPropertyType are removed from IncludeExpressionInfo .

• The Update and Delete repository methods return Task<int> (the affected rows).

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