EF Core - 从 SQL 视图加载的导航属性

Question

I have the following entities:

    public class Animal
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Current Animal Status
        /// </summary>
        public virtual AnimalStatus CurrentAnimalStatus
        {
            get { return AnimalStatuses.OrderByDescending(x => x.VersionNo).First(); }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// List of all Animal Statuses
        /// </summary>
        public virtual ICollection<AnimalStatus> AnimalStatuses { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// List of all Animal Operations
        /// </summary>
        public virtual ICollection<AnimalOperation> AnimalOperations { get; set; }
    }

and

    public class AnimalStatus
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }

        public int VersionNo { get; set; }

        public int BloodCount { get; set; }

        public int AnimalId { get; set; }

        public virtual Animal Animal { get; set; }
    }

I'm only ever interested in the most recent AnimalStatus so would like to use a View to populate just the CurrentAnimalStatus property and remove the need for ICollection<AnimalStatus> . The rest of the Animal entity should be populated by EF core.

Currently the AnimalStatus table holds 300,000 records so is very slow using EF Core with

_dbContext.Animal.Include(x => x.AnimalStatus);

Is it possible in EF Core to have a navigation property on an entity be populated from a SQL view?

                CREATE VIEW [dbo].[CurrentAnimalStatusView]
                AS
                    WITH ANIMAL_EVENTS_CTE AS
                    (
                        SELECT
                            AnimalId,
                            BloodCount,
                            ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY AnimalId ORDER BY VersionNo DESC) AS RowNumber --RowNumber = 1 indicates the latest status
                        FROM
                            AnimalBloodTests
                    )
                    SELECT
                        AnimalId,
                        BloodCount
                    FROM
                        ANIMAL_EVENTS_CTE cte
                    WHERE
                        RowNumber = 1 --Only interested in latest status for each AnimalId

Answer 1

You can create a model for your view and map it to Dbset.

protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
  modelBuilder.Entity<CurrentAnimalStatus>(eb =>
    {
      eb.HasNoKey();
      eb.ToView("CurrentAnimalStatusView");
    });
  base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}