If you've used Massive, you know how awesome it is. But you've probably thought "This still seems like a lot more code than I really want to have to write". I was thinking the same thing.
Goals
- Eliminate the need to create a new class for each Massive "Table"
- Add awesome functionality from ActiveRecord (ex:
FindBy...andReload) - Add registration for event hooks: BeforeSave, BeforeDelete
- Add registration for validation hooks
- Do all of this in as few lines of code as possible
- And most importantly, make Massive that much easier and fun to use!
What if you could do something like this:
var contactsTable = DynamicTable.Create(
"Person.Contact", // table
"AdventureWorks", // connectionstring
"ContactID" ); // primarykey
var contacts = contactsTable.FindByFirstNameAndLastName( "Jay", "Adams" );Pretty clean, right? Yeah I think so too. But that's not enough. What if we wanted to find a user by Email and MiddleInitial? No worries. MassiveRecord has your back.
var contacts = contactsTable.FindByEmailAndMiddleInitial( "test@test.com", "G" );Okay... what if we wanted to have the FirstName capitalized every time we save a contact? Normally we'd have to override the BeforeSave method in our Contacts class. With MassiveRecord it takes 1 line of code:
DynamicTable.RegisterFilter( FilterType.BeforeSave, "Person.Contact",
user => user.FirstName = user.FirstName.ToUpper() );Yeah, it's that easy.
What if you wanted to specify a configuration that MassiveRecord should use everytime it creates a specific table? No problem, we even added a nifty mini fluent interface to help you out:
// in your Global.asax or some other startup class, include this code
DynamicTable.Configure( c => c.WhenAskedFor("Users").Use( s => {
s.ConnectionString = "Test";
s.PrimaryKey = "ContactID";
s.Table = "Person.Contact";
s.BeforeSave( user => user.FirstName = user.FirstName.ToUpper() )
.BeforeSave( user => user.LastName = user.LastName.ToUpper() );
}));
// in your controller or other class file do the following
var usersTable = DynamicTable.Create("Users");
var users = usersTable.FindByEmail("myuser@test.com"); // BOOM!Just download the MassiveRecord.cs file along with Massive and throw them into your project and you're done!