C#•6mo ago

Using base class as relationship definition in model ASP.net WEB API

So I've written this model that I used to save my credentials to authenticate my users with:

public class UserCredentialsModel : IdentityUser, IModelEntity
{
    [Required]
    string Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; }

    public ICollection<RefreshTokenModel> RefreshTokens { get; } = new List<RefreshTokenModel>();

    // Does this work?
    public BaseProfile profile { get; set; }
}

public class UserCredentialsModel : IdentityUser, IModelEntity
{
    [Required]
    string Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; }

    public ICollection<RefreshTokenModel> RefreshTokens { get; } = new List<RefreshTokenModel>();

    // Does this work?
    public BaseProfile profile { get; set; }
}

Now as you can see I have a BaseProfile here, each credential has its connected profile attached. It is a one to one relationship. However, I have multiple types of profiles, that have a few things in common so I wrote a base class like this:

   public class BaseProfile : IModelEntity
   {
       public string Id { get; set; }


       [Required]
       public string FirstName { get; set; }

       [Required]
       public string LastName { get; set; }

       public UserCredentialsModel UserCredentials { get; set; }
   }

   public class BaseProfile : IModelEntity
   {
       public string Id { get; set; }


       [Required]
       public string FirstName { get; set; }

       [Required]
       public string LastName { get; set; }

       public UserCredentialsModel UserCredentials { get; set; }
   }

and then I have different profiles that inherit from this, would this relationship still work as intended when using Baseprofile? Or do I need to have a field for each profile and have them as nullable/have some enum to decide the profile type and use that as a way to differentiate

1 Reply

joren•6mo ago

I would assume I'd need all my profiles inside UserCredentialsModel, make them nullable and define the relation in OnModelCreate accordingly?

public class UserCredentialsModel : IdentityUser, IModelEntity
{
    [Required]
    string Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; }

    public ICollection<RefreshTokenModel> RefreshTokens { get; } = new List<RefreshTokenModel>();

    public CompanyUserModel? CompanyProfile { get; set; }
    public PanelUserModel? PanelProfile { get; set; }
    public PortalManagerUserModel? PortalManagerProfile { get; set; }

}

public class UserCredentialsModel : IdentityUser, IModelEntity
{
    [Required]
    string Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; }

    public ICollection<RefreshTokenModel> RefreshTokens { get; } = new List<RefreshTokenModel>();

    public CompanyUserModel? CompanyProfile { get; set; }
    public PanelUserModel? PanelProfile { get; set; }
    public PortalManagerUserModel? PortalManagerProfile { get; set; }

}

is what I did now, is this a decent solution or am I looking at it the wrong way?

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Using base class as relationship definition in model ASP.net WEB API