/// <summary>
        ///     Determines the store type for a function import.
        /// </summary>
        private TypeUsage DetermineStoreResultType(
            FunctionImportMappingNonComposable mapping, int resultSetIndex, out IColumnMapGenerator columnMapGenerator)
        {
            // Determine column maps and infer result types for the mapped function. There are four varieties:
            // Collection(Entity)
            // Collection(PrimitiveType)
            // Collection(ComplexType)
            // No result type
            TypeUsage storeResultType;

            {
                StructuralType baseStructuralType;
                var            functionImport = mapping.FunctionImport;

                // Collection(Entity) or Collection(ComplexType)
                if (MetadataHelper.TryGetFunctionImportReturnType(functionImport, resultSetIndex, out baseStructuralType))
                {
                    ValidateEdmResultType(baseStructuralType, functionImport);

                    //Note: Defensive check for historic reasons, we expect functionImport.EntitySets.Count > resultSetIndex
                    var entitySet = functionImport.EntitySets.Count > resultSetIndex ? functionImport.EntitySets[resultSetIndex] : null;

                    columnMapGenerator = new FunctionColumnMapGenerator(
                        mapping, resultSetIndex, entitySet, baseStructuralType, _columnMapFactory);

                    // We don't actually know the return type for the stored procedure, but we can infer
                    // one based on the mapping (i.e.: a column for every property of the mapped types
                    // and for all discriminator columns)
                    storeResultType = mapping.GetExpectedTargetResultType(resultSetIndex);
                }

                // Collection(PrimitiveType)
                else
                {
                    var returnParameter = MetadataHelper.GetReturnParameter(functionImport, resultSetIndex);
                    if (returnParameter != null &&
                        returnParameter.TypeUsage != null)
                    {
                        // Get metadata description of the return type
                        storeResultType = returnParameter.TypeUsage;
                        Debug.Assert(
                            storeResultType.EdmType.BuiltInTypeKind == BuiltInTypeKind.CollectionType,
                            "FunctionImport currently supports only collection result type");
                        var elementType = ((CollectionType)storeResultType.EdmType).TypeUsage;
                        Debug.Assert(
                            Helper.IsScalarType(elementType.EdmType),
                            "FunctionImport supports only Collection(Entity), Collection(Enum) and Collection(Primitive)");

                        // Build collection column map where the first column of the store result is assumed
                        // to contain the primitive type values.
                        var scalarColumnMap     = new ScalarColumnMap(elementType, string.Empty, 0, 0);
                        var collectionColumnMap = new SimpleCollectionColumnMap(
                            storeResultType,
                            string.Empty, scalarColumnMap, null, null);
                        columnMapGenerator = new ConstantColumnMapGenerator(collectionColumnMap, 1);
                    }

                    // No result type
                    else
                    {
                        storeResultType    = null;
                        columnMapGenerator = new ConstantColumnMapGenerator(null, 0);
                    }
                }
            }
            return(storeResultType);
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Determines the store type for a function import.
        /// </summary>
        private TypeUsage DetermineStoreResultType(MetadataWorkspace workspace, FunctionImportMappingNonComposable mapping, int resultSetIndex, out IColumnMapGenerator columnMapGenerator) {
            // Determine column maps and infer result types for the mapped function. There are four varieties:
            // Collection(Entity)
            // Collection(PrimitiveType)
            // Collection(ComplexType)
            // No result type
            TypeUsage storeResultType; 
            {
                StructuralType baseStructuralType;
                EdmFunction functionImport = mapping.FunctionImport;

                // Collection(Entity) or Collection(ComplexType)
                if (MetadataHelper.TryGetFunctionImportReturnType<StructuralType>(functionImport, resultSetIndex, out baseStructuralType))
                {
                    ValidateEdmResultType(baseStructuralType, functionImport);

                    //Note: Defensive check for historic reasons, we expect functionImport.EntitySets.Count > resultSetIndex 
                    EntitySet entitySet = functionImport.EntitySets.Count > resultSetIndex ? functionImport.EntitySets[resultSetIndex] : null;

                    columnMapGenerator = new FunctionColumnMapGenerator(mapping, resultSetIndex, entitySet, baseStructuralType);

                    // We don't actually know the return type for the stored procedure, but we can infer
                    // one based on the mapping (i.e.: a column for every property of the mapped types
                    // and for all discriminator columns)
                    storeResultType = mapping.GetExpectedTargetResultType(workspace, resultSetIndex);
                }

                // Collection(PrimitiveType)
                else
                {
                    FunctionParameter returnParameter = MetadataHelper.GetReturnParameter(functionImport, resultSetIndex);
                    if (returnParameter != null && returnParameter.TypeUsage != null)
                    {
                        // Get metadata description of the return type 
                        storeResultType = returnParameter.TypeUsage;
                        Debug.Assert(storeResultType.EdmType.BuiltInTypeKind == BuiltInTypeKind.CollectionType, "FunctionImport currently supports only collection result type");
                        TypeUsage elementType = ((CollectionType)storeResultType.EdmType).TypeUsage;
                        Debug.Assert(Helper.IsScalarType(elementType.EdmType) 
                            , "FunctionImport supports only Collection(Entity), Collection(Enum) and Collection(Primitive)");

                        // Build collection column map where the first column of the store result is assumed
                        // to contain the primitive type values.
                        ScalarColumnMap scalarColumnMap = new ScalarColumnMap(elementType, string.Empty, 0, 0);
                        SimpleCollectionColumnMap collectionColumnMap = new SimpleCollectionColumnMap(storeResultType,
                            string.Empty, scalarColumnMap, null, null);
                        columnMapGenerator = new ConstantColumnMapGenerator(collectionColumnMap, 1);
                    }

                    // No result type
                    else
                    {
                        storeResultType = null;
                        columnMapGenerator = new ConstantColumnMapGenerator(null, 0);
                    }
                }
            }
            return storeResultType;
        }