cust["Name"] allways gives string.Empty problem

 Hello. I have problem with EntityBase["Column_Name"] usage of entities.

Is there any way to  getting it work ?

I never used, i´ll check it later tonight.

Can you give more specific details? Are you trying to access a string field? What happens when it´s a int field?

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 I tought that is working like datatable  (object o = table1["ColumnName"]) but it is used to make something else i dont know.

Hello there, I check de [ operator and i have no idea of what it does.

Do you want to get the property value base on it's name?

I believe the functionality they are looking for would be something like:

foreach(string colname in entity.TableColumns) {
       Console.WriteLine("Property: {0}  Value: {1}", colname, entity[colname].ToString());
} 

The cust["Name"] functionality seems be be broken. The generated code is the same as the Error method right above it.

However, there is also another subtle problem - if you have setup the UsePascalCasing to anything but "None", then there isn't any way to find the actual string name of the parameter you want to access. There is a TableColumns list of strings of the table columns, but they might not match the property values (Table column CustID might end up as property CustId).

To correctly implement this functionality, we would need to add another string array to hold the actual Property names, and then correct the indexer to return that Property.

DoniG

I've implemented this funcitonallity in one of my projecs, I'll commit the changes tomorrow and  you can get that in your project monday.

See ya. 

Hello there, I just take a look at .netTiers code and theres a methdo that might solve your problem:

foreach(string colname in entity.TableColumns) {
       Console.WriteLine("Property: {0}  Value: {1}", colname, EntityUtil.GetPropertyValue(entity, colname).ToString());
}

Note that GetProperty is case sensitive, so donig's note  is something to think about.

donig:

However, there is also another subtle problem - if you have setup the UsePascalCasing to anything but "None", then there isn't any way to find the actual string name of the parameter you want to access. There is a TableColumns list of strings of the table columns, but they might not match the property values (Table column CustID might end up as property CustId).

To correctly implement this functionality, we would need to add another string array to hold the actual Property names, and then correct the indexer to return that Property.

DoniG we could have a property array and not TableColumns, since it makes a lot more sense to have the properties names as .netTiers is a framework to abstract de database. (;