Navigation Propery Name

[taraman]

Dear all
I like this tool as it generates entities for database views and can customize the output. the tiny issue I got when using Scaffold-DbContext for reverse engineering:
public Patent()
{
public virtual ICollection Inventors { get; set; }
}
but when generate with the generator tool, I got this:
public Patent()
{
public virtual ICollection PatentInventors { get; set; }
}

as you see the class name Patent has been concatenated to the property name, so can we have any custom way to keep only the navigation property name?

[pwelter34]

If you refactor and rename the property, the changes should be kept upon re-generation. Is that not the case?

[ehpmfigueroa]

Navigation properties (generated relationships) are not being preserved upon re-generation even after renaming them through the IDE. The renamed properties revert back to the default auto generated names.

For example:

public partial class Person {
...
}

public partial class User {
#region Generated Properties
public int PersonID { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; } // can rename this property just fine and the change is preserved upon re-generation
#endregion
#region Generated Relationships
public virtual Person FKPersonPerson { get; set; } // needs to be renamed to Demographics but the name reverts back after re-generation
#endregion
}

How can I rename the generated relationship property to the desired name and preserve said change so a re-generation won't revert it back?

[ArnaudB88]

@pwelter34 Currently renaming of 'generated relationships' are reverted upon regeneration.
Is it possible to extend the 'renaming functionality' so

• a rename entry can also pass a 'replacement string'. This way we can specify a match (like now) and also a replace (which is currently string.empty in your code)
• rename functionality also applies on 'generated relationships'. This way we can specify our renames in the yaml and regeneration won't revent them.

fyi I would like the rename functionality for generated relationships for the following example (hierarchical table):

class Project
{
    Guid Id  { get; set; }
    Guid? ParentProjectId  { get; set; }
    //Generated relationships
    virtual Project ParentProject  { get; set; }
    virtual ICollection<Project> ParentProjects  { get; set; }  //=> I want this to be named 'ChildProjects'
}