EF Core not seeding my data #3708

bilalhaidar created 7 years ago

Hello, I added a migration, then requested to update the database. Tables were created successfully, but the seed data was not executed.

Then I noticed that the tables were created but missing my columns (i.e. properties).

In my case I have around 10 classes that share the same structure. Each class represents an entity that is used as reference data.

So I created a base class having those 2 properties and made those classes inheirt from that class. Something as this:

[Serializable]
    public class HostEntityBase<TPrimaryKey> : FullAuditedEntity<TPrimaryKey>
    {
        [Required]
        [StringLength(HostEntityConsts.MaxLabelLength)]
        public string Label { get; private set; }

        [StringLength(HostEntityConsts.MaxLabelDescriptionLength)]
        public virtual string Notes { get; private set; }

        public void UpdateLabel(string newLabel)
        {
            //Validate newLabel
            Check.NotNull(newLabel, nameof(newLabel));

            Label = newLabel;
        }

        public virtual void UpdateNotes(string newNotes)
        {
            Notes = newNotes;
        }

        public HostEntityBase()
        {
        }

        public HostEntityBase(string label, string notes)
        {
            UpdateLabel(label);
            UpdateNotes(notes);
        }
    }

Then each class inherits from this base and calls its constructor.

In the previous version (MVC 5/Angular js) it was working fine. But now with EF Core seems not to work. No columns were added on the tables?

Also, when I ran the app, the Seed ran. Where is that configured to do so? Usually, with update-database the Seed would run.

Thanks

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