LINQ to Avro Data

This article illustrates using LINQ to access tables within the Avro via the CData ADO.NET Data Provider for Avro. To achieve this, we will use LINQ to Entity Framework, which facilitates the generation of connections and can be seamlessly employed with any CData ADO.NET Data Providers to access data through LINQ.

See the help documentation for a guide to setting up an EF 6 project to use the provider.

1. In a new project in Visual Studio, right-click on the project and choose to add a new item. Add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
2. Choose EF Designer from Database and click Next.
3. Add a new Data Connection, and change your data source type to "CData Avro Data Source".

4. Enter your data source connection information.

   Connect to your local Avro file(s) by setting the URI connection property to the location of the Avro file.

   Below is a typical connection string:

   URI=C:/folder/table.avro;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;

👁 Required connection properties for the data source. (QuickBooks is shown.)

5. If saving your entity connection to App.Config, set an entity name. In this example we are setting AvroEntities as our entity connection in App.Config.
6. Enter a model name and select any tables or views you would like to include in the model.

Using the entity you created, you can now perform select commands. For example:

AvroEntities context = new AvroEntities();

var sampletable_1Query = from sampletable_1 in context.SampleTable_1
 select sampletable_1;

foreach (var result in sampletable_1Query) {
 Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", result.Id, result.Id);
}

See "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation for example queries of the supported LINQ.