Linq Provider for Oracle Coherence – Pt 2

In previous post I published about a Linq for Oracle Coherence. Linq makes it very convenient to add functionality to a provider, however creating a functionally reach and complete provider is a very complicated process.

Latest functionality I’ve added was ability to use coherence extractors in the query. Linq does not allow you to change its keywords and syntax, however, all functions are converted to linq expressions and are passed to the ExpressionVisitor for evaluation. First thing is to create an extended function to provide the functionality

public static T Extractor<T>(this object obj, string Name)
{
    throw new NotSupportedException();
}
public static T ChainedExtractor<T>(this object obj, string Name)
{
    throw new NotSupportedException();
}

The functions themselves do not have any functionality and are used solely to be converted to a linq expression. I’ve created them as Generic functions to be able to strongly type against extracted data

In the QueryTranslator class VisitMethodCall() function, we add functionality to evaluate the expression

if (m.Method.DeclaringType == typeof(LinqFunctions))
{
    if (m.Method.Name == "Extractor")
    {
        this.Visit(m.Arguments[1]);
        string right = (string)globalFilter;
        globalFilter = new Tangosol.Util.Extractor.ReflectionExtractor(right);
        return m;
    }
    else if (m.Method.Name == "ChainedExtractor")
    {
        this.Visit(m.Arguments[1]);
        string right = (string)globalFilter;
        globalFilter = new Tangosol.Util.Extractor.ChainedExtractor(right);
        return m;
    }
}

m.Arguments[0] has the reference to the parent object. m.Arguments[0] contains the argument. This allows us to create a Coherence Extractor that is used in the filters higher in the expression tree.

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A Note: I hope that the project gets some visibility and comments. Oracle Coherence is an excellent product with great .NET potential. Check out the project on google code: http://code.google.com/p/linqtocoherence

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Linq Provider for Oracle Coherence – Pt 2