On an example of Role Management system, I have Users and Roles. A user can be assigned many roles and a role can contain many users. I retrieve a user, modify role list on the client side and then try to submit. When retrieving a user, I do detach User entity from the context, I also specify load options to load Role List, and then detach each role from the context. On the client I add Role entities to the User.RoleList collection, then Attach User entity to the context and SubmitChanges. But new roles are not added.
Is there a complete example that shows adding/removing to/from such lists and then submitting changes to the parent entity?
Hello,
We do have some attach tests and a many to many unit test located in the Tracker Sample Application:code.google.com/.../detail
I believe when you do an attach, it doesn't attach child entities (RoleList). I took a look at the Table source code (via reflector) and there are various attach methods like AttachAll. You may need to also call Attach on the RoleList before calling submit changes.
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Yeah, I experimented with different types of Attachment and can't seem to make it work. It seems at this moment, that the only way to have RoleList update is from a separate method, not from User.Save().
If you could update the Tracker tests with a scenario that fails, I'd be more than happy to take a look into it.