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dreamdoctor

✅ ASP.NET API (EF Core) Relationships

Using the following example in my learnings, I'm struggling to make this work the way I want it to. 
  public class Company
  {
      public int Id { get; set; }
      public string Name { get; set; }
      public ICollection<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
  }
  public class Employee
  {
      public int Id { get; set; }
      public string Name { get; set; }
      public string Phone { get; set; }
      public Company Company { get; set; }
  }

When using swagger to POST a new Employee, if I want to specify a related Company I have to Include all the fields from the Company table, and the API creates a new Company record along with the new Employee record. So this is what it requires right now:

{
  "name": "New Company",
  "phone": "(123) 456 789",
  "company": {
    "name": "New Company"
  }
}

What I'd like to do is provide just a Company.Id for an existing Company record... So something like the this to add a new Employee, which includes the id 100 of an existing Company record:
{
  "name": "New Company",
  "phone": "(123) 456 789"
  "company": 100
}

I'm not sure how to make that work?
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