Error Remapping EF Code First TPH Discriminator

Question

I'm attempting to remap the descriminator column of my TPH-persisted object hierarchy as described at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh295845(v=vs.103).aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adonet/archive/2010/12/14/ef-feature-ctp5-fluent-api-samples.aspx

https://stackoverflow.com/a/6650064/141172

When I map using either of the following variants:

modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>()
            .Map<MyBase>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(0))
            .Map<DerivedA>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(1))
            .Map<DerivedB>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(2))
            .Map<DerivedC>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(3))
            .Map<DerivedD>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(4));

or

modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>()
            .Map<MyBase>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(0));
modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>()
            .Map<DerivedA>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(1));
modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>()
            .Map<DerivedB>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(2));
modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>()
            .Map<DerivedC>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(3));
modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>()
            .Map<DerivedD>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(4));

With the following variations:

Use string rather than integer, e.g. "1"
Remove Map statement for MyBase

I get the error:

Map was called more than once for type 'DerivedA' and at least one of the calls didn't specify the target table name.

All derived classes inherit directly from MyBase, and all derived classes are included in the mapping.

I'm using Entity Framework 4.3.1.

What am I doing wrong?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '12 at 22:13

This is fixed in EF5-beta2 where the chained Map calls should work.

In EF 4.3 you will need to split out each Map call onto an EntityTypeConfiguration for the entity type to which it applies.

modelBuilder.Entity<MyBase>() 
        .Map<MyBase>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(0)); 
modelBuilder.Entity<DerivedA>() 
        .Map<DerivedA>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(1)); 
modelBuilder.Entity<DerivedB>() 
        .Map<DerivedB>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(2)); 
modelBuilder.Entity<DerivedC>() 
        .Map<DerivedC>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(3)); 
modelBuilder.Entity<DerivedD>() 
        .Map<DerivedD>(m => m.Requires("TypeId").HasValue(4));

Notice the calls to Entity<DerivedA>, Entity<DerivedB>, and so on rather than all to Entity<MyBase>.

Error Remapping EF Code First TPH Discriminator

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