FutureState.AppCore.Data

A Portable, cross-platform, light weight, opinionated ORM designed to work across multiple Databases

Why another ORM, aren't there already a ton out there?

In our attempt to create our idea of the ultimate sync engine between mobile devices and a central server, our research lead us to projects that just didn't "feel right". We found many projects that worked across all platforms for a specific database (Sqlite.Net for example), but none of them had the added benefit of working across database engines. It was at that time that we decided that what we needed was a way to communicate with pretty much any ADO database from within a Portable Class Library, allowing us to not only use shared code on both the Client and the Server, but also use shared code across the individual databases themselves. It's out of this desire that FutureState.AppCore.Data was conceived.

Current Support

note: we take pull requests if you'd like to support more ;)

Platform	Sqlite	SQL Server (2012)	PostgreSQL	MySQL
Windows	yes	yes	coming	coming
Android	yes	no	no	no
iOS	yes	no	no	no
Windows Phone	coming	no	no	no

That sounds good, how do I use it?

We're working on building out the Wiki, so more information will be found there.

To get started, can either compile the project yourself. Simply clone the project to your Windows computer (we're currently using MSBuild and Powershell for our builds), and run the build.ps1 script. From there you can either grab the dll's out of the build-artifacts\output directory, or scoop the nupkg out of the build-artifacts directory and drop it in your local nuget package source.

Or you can just grab it from Nuget.org

> Install-Package FutureState.AppCore.Data

To give you a taste of what it looks like, here are some examples of CRUD operations.

Create

var jill = new StudentModel
    {
        Id = StudentJillId,
        FirstName = "Jill",
        LastName = "",
        Email = JillEmail,
        Courses = new List<CourseModel> { englishCourse },
    };

_dbProvider.Create( jill );

Read

IList<StudentModel> allStudents = _dbProvider.Query<StudentModel>().Select().ToList();
StudentModel jill = _dbProvider.Query<StudentModel>().Where(s => s.Email == "JillEmail").Select().FirstOrDefault();

Update

jill.Email = "JillNewEmail";
_dbProvider.Update<StudentModel>(jill);

Delete
note: this is still a work in progress

// first flavor
_dbProvider.Query<StudentModel>().Where( s => s.Email == "JillNewEmail" ).Delete();

// second flavor
_dbProvider.Delete<StudentModel>(s => s.Email == "JillNewEmail");

Dependencies

Since this ORM is simply a wrapper over an ADO database, it doesn't contain any drivers for the specific databases. If you're using SQLite, you'll want to use the Mono.Data.Sqlite library located in the 3rd party/Mono.Data.Sqlite directory.

Also, the project was built using Xamarin. We haven't had a chance to investigate compatibility in a Xamarin Free Environment.

License

We offer 2 license choices:

Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Commercial Licenses are also available, please email sales@futurestatemobile.com for more information.