BulkRead does not work for views

[arjensteinhauer]

Hi, when I try to use BulkRead to read entities from a SQL Server view, the method throws an exception 'Entity does not contain a table name'. When I look into the code, I think the IEntityType.GetTableName() form Entity Framework Core is used. This method indeed will return null for entities mapped to SQL views. IEntityType.GetViewName() should probably be used instead.

Is it possible to add support to BulkExtensions.BulkRead to read entities from a view? That would be great!

Versions being used by me at the moment:

• Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore version 7.0.11
• EFCore.BulkExtensions version 7.1.6

entity definition:

public class MyViewItem
{
    public long Id { get; set; }
    
    public int TenantId { get; set; }
    
    [Required]
    [MaxLength(100)]
    public string Description { get; set; }
}

DbContext:

public class MyContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<MyViewItem> MyViewItems { get; set; }
    
    public MyContext(DbContextOptions<MyContext> options) : base(options)
    {
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<MyViewItem>(entity =>
        {
            entity.HasKey(item => new { item.TenantId, item.Id });
            entity.ToView("MyView");
        });
    }
}

Code to read (which throws the exception):

public async Task<IEnumerable<MyViewItem>> ReadViewItems(List<long> ids)
{
    var tenantId = 1;
    var entities = ids
        .Select(id => new MyViewItem { Id = id, TenantId = tenantId })
        .ToList();

    using (var context = _contextFactory.Create())
    {
        await context.BulkReadAsync(entities, config =>
        {
            config.UpdateByProperties = new List<string> { nameof(MyViewItem.TenantId), nameof(MyViewItem.Id) };
        }).ConfigureAwait(false);

        return entities;
    }
}

SQL Server view

CREATE OR ALTER VIEW [MyView] AS
SELECT [TenantId]
     , [Id]
     , [Description]
FROM   [MyTable]

[borisdj]

Will look into it.