Foreign key as TPH discriminator in EF4 using CTP4 First code

Question

To summarize my model:

• License and certificate are children of qualification
• Qualification has one and only one profession
• A profession is either a licensed type (type 1) or a certified type (type 2)

Requirement . Imagine the relationship between business objects without introducing redundancy in the database schema. The type of qualification (license / certificate) must correspond to the type of profession.

Here is my simplified model, how it stands now - I will explain why this does not work below:

Public Class Profession
    <Key()>
    <DataMember(Order:=0)>
    Public Property Type As Integer
    <Key()>
    <DataMember(Order:=1)>
    Public Property Code As String

    Public Property Title As String
End Class

Public Class Qualification
    Public Property Id As Integer
    Public Property PersonId As Integer
    Public Property Type As Integer
    Public Property ProfessionCode As String
    Public Overridable Property Person As Person
    Public Overridable Property Profession As Profession
End Class

Public Class License
    Inherits Qualification

    Public Property Number As String        
End Class

Public Class Certificate
    Inherits Qualification

    Public Property IssuerName As String    
End Class

Here's a simplified ModelBuilder:

modelBuilder.Entity(Of Qualification) _
    .Property(Function(q) q.ProfessionCode).IsRequired()

modelBuilder.Entity(Of Qualification) _
    .HasRequired(Of Profession)(Function(q) q.Profession) _
    .HasConstraint(Function(q, p) p.Type = q.Type AndAlso p.Code = q.ProfessionCode)

modelBuilder.Entity(Of Qualification) _
    .MapHierarchy() _
    .Case(Of Qualification)(Function(q) New With {
        q.Id,
        q.PersonId,
        q.ProfessionCode,
        .Type = 0) _
    .Case(Of License)(Function(q) New With {
        q.Number,
        .Type = 1}) _
    .Case(Of Certificate)(Function(q) New With {
        q.IssuerName,
        .Type = 2}) _
    .ToTable("dbo.Qualifications")

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Answer 1

, :

public class Profession {    
    [Key][DataMember(Order = 0)]    
    public int Type { get; set; }
    [Key][DataMember(Order = 1)]
    public string Code { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
}

public class Qualification {
    public int Id { get; set; }               
    [Required]
    public int ProfessionType { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public string ProfessionCode { get; set; }                
    [Required]
    public virtual Profession Profession { get; set; }
}

public class License : Qualification {
    public string Number { get; set; }  
}

public class Certificate : Qualification {
    public string IssuerName { get; set; }
}

class Context : DbContext {
    public DbSet<Qualification> Qualifications { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Profession> Professions { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>()
            .HasRequired<Profession>(q => q.Profession)
            .HasConstraint((q, p) => q.ProfessionCode == p.Code 
                                     && q.ProfessionType == p.Type);

        modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>().MapHierarchy()
            .Case<Qualification>(q => new {
                q.ProfessionCode,
                q.ProfessionType,
                q.Id,                    
                Type = 0
            }).Case<License>(q => new {
                q.Number,
                Type = 1
            }).Case<Certificate>(q => new {
                q.IssuerName,
                Type = 2
            }).ToTable("Qualifications");
    }
}

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public class Profession {
    public int ProfessionId { get; set; }        
    public int Type { get; set; }
    public string Code { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
}

public class Qualification {
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public int ProfessionId { get; set; }                
    [Required]
    public virtual Profession Profession { get; set; }
}

public class License : Qualification {
    public string Number { get; set; }  
}

public class Certificate : Qualification {
    public string IssuerName { get; set; }
}

class Context : DbContext {
    public DbSet<Qualification> Qualifications { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Profession> Professions { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>()
            .HasRequired<Profession>(q => q.Profession)
            .HasConstraint((q, p) => q.ProfessionId == p.ProfessionId);

        modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>().MapHierarchy()
            .Case<Qualification>(q => new {
                q.ProfessionId,                   
                q.Id,                    
                Type = 0
            })
            .Case<License>(q => new {
                q.Number,
                Type = 1
            })
            .Case<Certificate>(q => new {
                q.IssuerName,
                Type = 2
            })
            .ToTable("Qualifications");
    }
}

:

DRY - TPT TPH:

public class Profession {
    [Key]
    [DataMember(Order = 0)]
    public int Type { get; set; }
    [Key]
    [DataMember(Order = 1)]
    public string Code { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
}

public class Qualification {
    public int Id { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public int ProfessionType { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public string ProfessionCode { get; set; }
    [Required]
    public virtual Profession Profession { get; set; }
}

public class License : Qualification {
    public string Number { get; set; }
}

public class Certificate : Qualification {
    public string IssuerName { get; set; }
}

class Context : DbContext 
{
    public DbSet<Qualification> Qualifications { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Profession> Professions { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder) {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>()
            .HasRequired<Profession>(q => q.Profession)
            .HasConstraint((q, p) => q.ProfessionCode == p.Code
                                     && q.ProfessionType == p.Type);

        modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>().MapHierarchy(q => new 
        {
            q.Id,
            q.ProfessionCode,
            q.ProfessionType,
        })
        .ToTable("Qualifications");

        modelBuilder.Entity<License>().MapHierarchy(l => new 
        {
            l.Id,
            l.Number
        })
        .ToTable("Licenses");

        modelBuilder.Entity<Certificate>().MapHierarchy(c => new 
        {
            c.Id,
            c.IssuerName
        })
        .ToTable("Certificates");
    }
}

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