I hope that I correctly understand your problem. You have existing STORED PROCEDURE, for example dbo.spGetSomeData, in the database, which returns the list of some items with some fields and you need to provide the data from Web API method.
The implementation could be about the following. You can define an empty DbContext like:
public class MyDbContext : DbContext
{
}
and to define appsettings.json with the connection string to the database
{
"Data": {
"DefaultConnection": {
"ConnectionString": "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=MyDb;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
}
}
}
You should use Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to add MyDbContext to the
public class Startup
{
// property for holding configuration
public IConfigurationRoot Configuration { get; set; }
public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
{
// Set up configuration sources.
var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
.AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
.AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: true);
.AddEnvironmentVariables();
// save the configuration in Configuration property
Configuration = builder.Build();
}
// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to add services to the container.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
// Add framework services.
services.AddMvc()
.AddJsonOptions(options => {
options.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver();
});
services.AddEntityFramework()
.AddSqlServer()
.AddDbContext<MyDbContext>(options => {
options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["ConnectionString"]);
});
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
{
...
}
}
Now you can implement your WebApi action as the following:
[Route("api/[controller]")]
public class MyController : Controller
{
public MyDbContext _context { get; set; }
public MyController([FromServices] MyDbContext context)
{
_context = context;
}
[HttpGet]
public async IEnumerable<object> Get()
{
var returnObject = new List<dynamic>();
using (var cmd = _context.Database.GetDbConnection().CreateCommand()) {
cmd.CommandText = "exec dbo.spGetSomeData";
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
// set some parameters of the stored procedure
cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@someParam",
SqlDbType.TinyInt) { Value = 1 });
if (cmd.Connection.State != ConnectionState.Open)
cmd.Connection.Open();
var retObject = new List<dynamic>();
using (var dataReader = await cmd.ExecuteReaderAsync())
{
while (await dataReader.ReadAsync())
{
var dataRow = new ExpandoObject() as IDictionary<string, object>;
for (var iFiled = 0; iFiled < dataReader.FieldCount; iFiled++) {
// one can modify the next line to
// if (dataReader.IsDBNull(iFiled))
// dataRow.Add(dataReader.GetName(iFiled), dataReader[iFiled]);
// if one want don't fill the property for NULL
// returned from the database
dataRow.Add(
dataReader.GetName(iFiled),
dataReader.IsDBNull(iFiled) ? null : dataReader[iFiled] // use null instead of {}
);
}
retObject.Add((ExpandoObject)dataRow);
}
}
return retObject;
}
}
}
The above code just execute using exec dbo.spGetSomeData and use dataRader to read all results and save there in dynamic object. If you would make $.ajax call from api/My you will get the data returned from dbo.spGetSomeData, which you can directly use in JavaScript code. The above code is very transparent. The names of the fields from the dataset returned by dbo.spGetSomeData will be the names of the properties in the JavaScript code. You don't need to manage any entity classes in your C# code in any way. Your C# code have no names of fields returned from the stored procedure. Thus if you would extend/change the code of dbo.spGetSomeData (rename some fields, add new fields) you will need to adjust only your JavaScript code, but no C# code.
