Why Where clause in not working with Virtual property in LINQ

Question

I am trying to do something like this

var users = await _dbContext.Users.AsNoTracking().AsQueryable()
    .Include(user => user.AdminRoles)
    .Where(u => u.AdminRoles.Roles.Contains("admin2022"))
    .ToListAsync();

Here the list is getting 0 results, but when I do

var users = (await _dbContext.Users.AsNoTracking().AsQueryable()
     .Include(user => user.AdminRoles).ToListAsync())
         .Where(u => u.AdminRoles.Roles.Contains("admin2022"))
         .ToList();

Then it yields all the required results. Could some one please help me how can I make the first way work ?

Answer 1

Try:

var users = await _dbContext.Users
    .AsNoTracking()
    .AsQueryable()
    .Include(user => user.AdminRoles.Where(x => x.Roles.Contains("admin2022")))
    .ToListAsync();