Airtable.EFCore 1.0.0

Airtable.EFCore

Entity Framework Core provider for Airtable.

Uses Airtable.Net library by ngocnicholas.

Based and inspired mostly by Cosmos DB provider by Microsoft.

State of the project and motivation

This project was created to support charity operations of UA Responders charity that runs it's internal operations on Airtable and Azure Functions.

Because Airtable is a good simple UI and database, but lacks good automation facilities, we run some of our automations on Azure Functions in C#.

Currently all operations on Azure Functions are ported to work on top of this provider, and features added are based on needs to support those operations.

Only small subset of LINQ is translated, but there is a foundation to add features as needed.

Changetracking and SaveChangesAsync() works, so you can do full CRUD cycle.

Usage

Create Airtable base

Get Airtable base ID and API key

Install Airtable.EFCore package.

//Register airtable as EF provider
services.AddDbContext<TestDbContext>(o => o.UseAirtable(config.GetValue<string>("BaseId"), config.GetValue<string>("ApiKey")));

Example model:

Create your model. Example uses Inventory Tracking template.

public class TestDbContext : DbContext
{
    public TestDbContext(DbContextOptions options) : base(options)
    {
    }

    public DbSet<DbProductInventory> ProductInventory { get; set; }
    public DbSet<DbManufacturer> Manufacturers { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<DbProductInventory>().ToTable("Product Inventory");
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
    }
}

public class DbManufacturer
{
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [Column("Contact Name")]
    public string ContactName { get; set; }

    public AirtableAttachment Image { get; set; }
}

public class DbProductInventory
{
    public string Id { get; set; }

    [Column("Units Ordered")]
    public int Ordered { get; set; }

    [Column("Product Name")]
    public string ProductName { get; set; }
}

And you can work with it as with regular EF model!

Translated features

Airtable Views

FromView extension limit querying to specific view.

await db.Manufacturers.FromView("San").FirstOrDefaultAsync(i=>i.Name == "Something");

Airtable formulas translated

Attachment support

Use property of type AirtableAttachment or ICollection<AirtableAttachment> to work with attachments.