EF Core 5 check if all ids from filter exists in related entities-CodePudding

I have two models:

public class Employee
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public IList<Skill> { get; set; }
}

public class Skill
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

And I have filter with list of skill ids, that employee should contain:

public class Filter
{
    public IList<int> SkillIds { get; set; }
}

I want to write query to get all employees, that have all skills from filter.

I tried:

query.Where(e => filter.SkillIds.All(id => e.Skills.Any(skill => skill.Id == id)));

And:

query = query.Where(e => e.Skills
                .Select(x => x.Id)
                .Intersect(filter.SkillIds)
                .Count() == filter.SkillIds.Count);

But as a result I get exception says that query could not be translated.

CodePudding user response：

It is going to be a difficult, if not impossible task, to run a query like this on the sql server side. This is because to make this work on the SQL side, you would be grouping each set of employee skills into a single row which would need to have a new column for every skill listed in the skills table. SQL server wasn't really made to handle grouping with an unknown set of columns passed into a query. Although this kind of query is technically possible, it's probably not very easy to do through a model binding framework like ef core.

It would be easier to do this on the .net side using something like:

var employees = _context.Employees.Include(x=>x.Skill).ToList();
var filter = someFilter;
var result = employees.Where(emp => filter.All(skillID=> emp.skills.Any(skill=>skill.ID == skillID))).ToList()

CodePudding user response：

This solution works:

foreach (int skillId in filter.SkillIds)
{
    query = query.Where(e => e.Skills.Any(skill => skill.Id == skillId));
}

I am not sure about it's perfomance, but works pretty fast with small amount of data.