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How to get all the values from an SQL Query C#

I have used String Builder to generate a RAW SQL QUERY in C#.
List<string> columns = new List<string>();
columns.Add("id");
columns.Add("Temp");
StringBuilder SqlStatement = new StringBuilder();
SqlStatement.Append("Select ");
for (int i = 0; i < columns.Count; i++)
{
if (i == columns.Count - 1)
{
SqlStatement.Append(columns[i]);
}
else
{
SqlStatement.Append(columns[i]);
SqlStatement.Append(",");
}
}
SqlStatement.Append(" FROM graph_update");
var ctx = new graphDBContext();
var result = ctx.Database.SqlQuery<graphDBContext>(SqlStatement.ToString()).ToList();
This translates into SELECT id,Temp FROM graph_update
And the result gives me
id = 1, temp = 20
id = 2 temp = 30
How do I get all these values????
I'm too use to:
foreach(var item in result)
{
item.id = id;
item.temp = temp;
}
But it won't let me.
EDIT:
Sorry but I'm not sure what you mean. Here is my debugger

Try to use foreach like this if theres no error return
foreach(var v in result)
{
String v0 = v[0].ToString();
String v1 = v[1].ToString();
}

Assuming you have EF > 6, then the ctx.Database.SqlQuery, according to the method documentation:
Creates a raw SQL query that will return elements of the given generic type.
The type can be any type that has properties that match the names of the columns returned from the query, or can be a simple primitive type. The type does not have to be an entity type. The results of this query are never tracked by the context even if the type of object returned is an entity type.
With that in mind you can do something like this:
public class GraphUpdateResult
{
public int Id {get; set;}
public decimal Temp {get; set;}
}
Then in your current method:
var result = ctx.Database.SqlQuery<GraphUpdateResult>SqlStatement.ToString()).ToList();
foreach (var graphResult in result)
{
Console.WriteLine(graphResult.Id);
Console.WriteLine(graphResult.Temp);
}
You can add more columns to the GraphUpdateResult class for EF to bind to, even if in some queries you don't specify them in the select statement.

I hope this helps.
foreach(var item in result)
{
var id = item.id;
var temp = item.temp;
}
in your code above, you are trying to assign the values to the item, instead of retrieving.

You can use a ORM-Mapper like
https://stormy.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#Stormy.cs
It is a very light Mapper and you can look how it works.
It maps the reader Data to the Object data:
public class CatMapper : ISelectable<Cat>
{
public Cat ApplySelect(IDataReader reader)
{
return new Cat()
{
Name = reader["name"].ToString(),
Weight = (float)reader["weight"]
};
}
}

Merging lists with a for loop

I'm working on an algorithm which can generate 2 types of recommendations, restaurants and dishes. All of this works fine, but I wanted to merge these 2 types of recommendations in a single list, which is where I encountered some issues. From my previous question I concluded that I needed a wrapper class, which I have set up like this:
public class RecommenderItem
{
public Guid Id { get; set; }
public object Entity { get; set; }
}
Now I want to alternate the 2 types of recommendations so the list would look like this:
[Restaurant][Dish][Restaurant][Dish][Restaurant][Dish] //Etc...
Note that these recommendations are completely separate. They are generated purely based on the user's preference, and they have no correlation in between them. My product owner wants to show these recommendations on the home page of our app like this.
These lists are different in length, so if I have added all items from a list, I wanted to just add the remaining objects from the other list. A possible scenario of this could look like this:
/*Other objects before this...*/[Dish][Restaurant][Dish][Dish][Dish] //Etc...
Here did the list of restaurant objects run out and I just wanted to add the remaining dish recommendations at the end of the list.
I have gotten this far, but I'm unsure how I would catch an IndexOutOfBounds exception and add the rest of the remaining objects at the end.
public List<RecommenderItem> GetMergedRecommendationLists(List<Restaurant> restaurantRecommendations,
List<Dish> dishRecommendations)
{
//Setting up the output list.
List<RecommenderItem> output = new List<RecommenderItem>();
int count = 0;
//Check which list is longer and use that count
if (restaurantRecommendations.Count > dishRecommendations.Count)
count = dishRecommendations.Count;
else
count = restaurantRecommendations.Count;
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
//I'm fully aware this isn't the most optimal way of doing this,
//but I'm only looking at functionality here, optimizing performance comes later.
var restRecommendation = restaurantRecommendations[i];
var dishRecommendation = dishRecommendations[i];
output.Add(new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = restRecommendation.Id,
Entity = restRecommendation
});
output.Add(new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = dishRecommendation.Id,
Entity = dishRecommendation
});
}
return output;
}
Does anyone have an idea how I could do this? Could I just catch an IndexOutOfBounds exception and use .AddRange() for the remaining objects? I'm not sure how I could check which list was out of bounds.
Let me know if I should elaborate more and thanks in advance!
Edit: -removed because it wasn't fair.-

This is a fairly succinct way of doing this.
While not Linq, it works in the spirit of the way Linq works by deferring doing any work until the resulting sequence is enumerated:
public static IEnumerable<RecommenderItem> Merge(IEnumerable<Restaurant> restaurants, IEnumerable<Dish> dishes)
{
using (var r = restaurants.GetEnumerator())
using (var d = dishes.GetEnumerator())
{
while (true)
{
bool rAvailable = r.MoveNext();
bool dAvailable = d.MoveNext();
if (rAvailable)
yield return new RecommenderItem { Id = r.Current.Id, Entity = r.Current };
if (dAvailable)
yield return new RecommenderItem { Id = d.Current.Id, Entity = d.Current };
if (!rAvailable && !dAvailable)
break;
}
}
}
If you happen to be using the MoreLinq NuGet package that includes the ZipLongest extension method, you can use the following simplified implementation instead:
public static IEnumerable<RecommenderItem> Merge(IEnumerable<Restaurant> restaurants, IEnumerable<Dish> dishes)
{
foreach (var item in restaurants.ZipLongest(dishes, (r, d) => new { r, d }))
{
if (item.r != null)
yield return new RecommenderItem { Id = item.r.Id, Entity = item.r };
if (item.d != null)
yield return new RecommenderItem { Id = item.d.Id, Entity = item.d };
}
}
Addendum
As #InBetween posted in his answer, you can put the interleaving logic into an extension method. Here's my version; it's substantially the same, except I've added a small optimisation to avoid calling .MoveNext() when its not necessary:
public static class EnumerableExt
{
public static IEnumerable<T> Interleave<T>(this IEnumerable<T> a, IEnumerable<T> b)
{
using (var ae = a.GetEnumerator())
using (var be = b.GetEnumerator())
{
bool aAvailable = true;
bool bAvailable = true;
while (aAvailable || bAvailable)
{
aAvailable = aAvailable && ae.MoveNext();
bAvailable = bAvailable && be.MoveNext();
if (aAvailable)
yield return ae.Current;
if (bAvailable)
yield return be.Current;
}
}
}
}
Once you have that, I realised that you don't need to write an implict operator. Instead, you can just convert the two sequences to the resultant type before calling Interleave() like so:
var restaurantsAsRecommenderItems =
restaurantRecommendations
.Select(r => new RecommenderItem {Id = r.Id, Entity = r});
var dishesAsRecommenderItems =
dishRecommendations
.Select(d => new RecommenderItem {Id = d.Id, Entity = d});
var result =
restaurantsAsRecommenderItems
.Interleave(dishesAsRecommenderItems)
.ToList();

My recommendation would be to just make simple implicit operator :
public static implicit operator RecommenderItem(Restaurant restaurant) {
return new RecommenderItem { Id = restaurant.Id, Entity = restaurant };
}
Then you have possibility to convert these types easily like :
Restaurant rest = //...
RecommenderItem rItem = rest; // here the implicit operator is called
After doing this you can just use one for loop :
int count = Math.Max(restaurantRecommendations.Count, dishRecommendations.Count);
for ( int i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
if ( i < restRecommendations.Count )
output.Add(restRecommendations[i]);
if ( i < dishRecommendations.Count )
output.Add(dishRecommendations[i]);
}
This will make your work much more easier.

Well, there are probably more elegant LINQ solutions but you have already most, it's also a very efficient approach:
public List<RecommenderItem> GetMergedRecommendationLists(List<Restaurant> restaurantRecommendations, List<Dish> dishRecommendations)
{
//Setting up the output list.
List<RecommenderItem> output = new List<RecommenderItem>();
int count = Math.Min(restaurantRecommendations.Count, dishRecommendations.Count);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
{
var restRecommendation = restaurantRecommendations[i];
var dishRecommendation = dishRecommendations[i];
output.Add(new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = restRecommendation.Id,
Entity = restRecommendation
});
output.Add(new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = dishRecommendation.Id,
Entity = dishRecommendation
});
}
int remainingRestaurant = restaurantRecommendations.Count - count;
int remainingDishes = dishRecommendations.Count - count;
if (remainingRestaurant > 0)
{
for (int i = count; i < restaurantRecommendations.Count; i++)
{
var restRecommendation = restaurantRecommendations[i];
output.Add(new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = restRecommendation.Id,
Entity = restRecommendation
});
}
}
else if (remainingDishes > 0)
{
for (int i = count; i < dishRecommendations.Count; i++)
{
var dishRecommendation = dishRecommendations[i];
output.Add(new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = dishRecommendation.Id,
Entity = dishRecommendation
});
}
}
return output;
}

A simple way of doing it would be:
public static IEnumerable<T> Merge<T>(this IEnumerable<T> first, IEnumerable<T> second)
{
using (var firstEnumerator = first.GetEnumerator())
using (var secondEnumerator = second.GetEnumerator())
{
while (firstEnumerator.MoveNext())
{
yield return firstEnumerator.Current;
if (secondEnumerator.MoveNext())
{
yield return secondEnumerator.Current;
}
}
while (secondEnumerator.MoveNext())
{
yield return secondEnumerator.Current;
}
}
}

After having created two arrays of restaurants and dishes of the same type RecommenderItem, you can use the Zip method like :
var restaurants = restaurantRecommendations.Select(x => new RecommenderItem {
Id = x.Id,
Entity = x
}).ToArray();
var dishes = dishRecommendations.Select(x => new RecommenderItem {
Id = x.Id,
Entity = x
}).ToArray();
var output = restaurants.Zip(dishes, (r, d) => new[] { r, d })
.SelectMany(r => r).Concat(dishes.Skip(restaurants.Length))
.Concat(restaurants.Skip(dishes.Length));

Restaraunt and Dish would have to share a base type:
restaurantRecommendations.Select(item => new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = item.Id,
Entity = item
});
dishRecommendations.Select(item => new RecommenderItem()
{
Id = item.Id,
Entity = item
});
Once that's the case you could use something like this slightly modified version of Zip (from System.Linq):
private static IEnumerable<T> ZipThrough<T>(IEnumerable<T> first, IEnumerable<T> second)
{
if (first == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(first));
if (second == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(second));
using (var e1 = first.GetEnumerator())
{
using (var e2 = second.GetEnumerator())
{
while (true)
if (e1.MoveNext())
{
yield return e1.Current;
if (e2.MoveNext()) yield return e2.Current;
}
else if (e2.MoveNext())
{
yield return e2.Current;
}
else
{
break;
}
}
}
}

HOW TO MAKE create var array dynamic in C#

In my controller I'm using following code to return the 2 lists to ajax request:
public JsonResult getdata(int seat_plane_id)
{
int lid;
layoutsController L = new layoutsController();
JsonResult result = L.getlayouts(seat_plane_id);
List<layouts> L1 = (List<layouts>)result.Data;
List<SeatPlans>[] allUser = new List<SeatPlans>[2];
for(int i=0; i<L1.Count; i++)
{
String lid1 = L1[i].ticket_no_start;
lid = Int32.Parse(lid1);
allUser[i]= new List<SeatPlans>();
allUser[i]= db.SEATPLAN.Where(d => d.layout_id == lid).ToList();
}
var v = new { allUser0 = allUser[0], allUser1 = allUser[1] ,allUser2= allUser[2] };
return Json(v, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
I'm catching the returned value in ajax request as:
success: function (v) {
loadData(v.allUser0);
loadData(v.allUser0);
}
But my problem is: I will have a dynamic size of allUser (size is L1.Count). And so I will get L1.Count no of lists. So I need to create var v={ } dynamically. How to do this? If you have any other solution, it is acceptable.

Simply make v a dictionary. The serializer will generate identical JSON for you as you would have had with the dynamic object.
var v = new Dictionary<string, SeatPlans>();
int id = 0;
foreach (SeatPlans sp in allUser)
{
v.Add($"allUser{id}", sp);
id++;
}
return Json(v, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

Querying the id of an entity using linq

In the following method I am trying to fetch the Username by passing the id value where the ids passed as parameter can be multiple values as in csv's (eg: 1,2) and are returned to the calling function as IEnumerable.
Code Follows as below :
[NonAction]
public static IEnumerable<UserProfile> SearchCMSAdmins(string s)
{
//var searchResults = Entities.UserProfiles.Where(item =>item.UserName.Contains(s));
//return searchResults;
string[] ids = s.Split(',');
IEnumerable<UserProfile> results = null;
IList<UserProfile> user = new List<UserProfile>();
for (int i = 0; i < ids.Length; i++)
{
int id = Convert.ToInt32(ids[i].ToString());
var entity = Entities.UserProfiles.Where(item => item.UserId);
//user.Add(entity);
results = results.Concat(entity);
}
return results;
}
Any help is appreciated.

Try using Contains:
var results = Entities.UserProfiles.Where(item => ids.Contains(item.UserId));
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms132407.aspx

You can get the id array to be of int type, You can either use int.TryParse or Convert.ToInt32 like:
int[] ids = s.Split(',').Select(r=> Convert.ToInt32(r)).ToArray();
Later you can modify your LINQ query as:
IList<UserProfile> user = Entities.UserProfiles
.Where(item=> ids.Contains(item)).ToList();
This would be like Select * from table where ID in (1,2,3) see Creating IN Queries With Linq to SQL for idea

[NonAction]
public static IEnumerable<UserProfile> SearchCMSAdmins(string s)
{
string[] ids = s.Split(',');
foreach (string idAsString in ids)
{
int id = Convert.ToInt32(idAsString);
var entity = Entities.UserProfiles.Where(item => item.UserId == id);
yield return entity;
}
}
should do it (there should be some validation code too in case the id is not an int or the entity is null)

how to sort mapreduce results?

I have written a method in C# which retrieves tweets from mongoDB and would like to count and sort authors by the number of retweets.
Right now, the method already performs map and reduce and returns unsorted results the following way:
public void RetweetsCount()
{
string wordMap = #"function wordMap() {
var usernameOrigin = this.text.match(/\brt\s*#(\w+)/i);
if (usernameOrigin === null) {
return;
}
// loop every word in the document
emit(usernameOrigin[1], { count : 1 });
}";
string wordReduce = #"function wordReduce(key, values) {
var total = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
total += values[i].count;
}
return { count : total };
}";
var options = new MapReduceOptionsBuilder();
options.SetOutput(MapReduceOutput.Inline);
var results = collection.MapReduce(wordMap, wordReduce, options);
foreach (var result in results.GetResults())
{
Console.WriteLine(result.ToJson());
}
}
Does anyone know how sort results by descending count value (number of retweets)?

Here's the solution. After retrieving results from MapReduce, I first converted the IEnumerable to list and then ordered the list the folliwing way:
var results = collection.MapReduce(wordMap, wordReduce, options);
IEnumerable<BsonDocument> resultList = results.GetResults();
List<BsonDocument> orderedList = resultList.ToList().OrderByDescending(x => x[1]).ToList();