/// <summary>
/// The purpose of this method is to search the db to return a model of the customer object given two strings as names
/// </summary>
/// <param name="search">Two strings a first and a last name</param>
/// <returns>A customer object</returns>
public IEnumerable <Domain.Models.Customer> FindCustomerByName(string[] search)
{
// Search the db and if someone is found assign it if no one was found assign null
List <Entities.CustomerEntity> dbCustomer = _context.Customers.Where(c => (c.FirstName == search[0] && c.LastName == search[1])).ToList();
// if it is null exit the method and return null
if (dbCustomer == null)
{
return(new List <Domain.Models.Customer>());
}
List <Domain.Models.Customer> m_customers = new List <Domain.Models.Customer>();
foreach (Entities.CustomerEntity customer in dbCustomer)
{
m_customers.Add(MapperCustomer.Map(customer));
}
return(m_customers);
}
/// <summary>
/// Add a new Customer from Models to Database.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="customer"> This is the new Model to be put into the database. It only has a firstname and last name.</param>
public void AddACustomer(Domain.Models.Customer customer)
{
// Create the Entity item to be put into the database
Entities.CustomerEntity entity;
// Since the database handles the ID setting with identity, we only need to assign the new entity the firstname and the lastname
// Maybe in the future we could add a way to change the location, but for now the database sets the location to the default 1.
entity = MapperCustomer.Map(customer);
// Add the new entity to the context to send over to the database
_context.Add(entity);
Save();
// Create their shopping cart
Entities.ShoppingcartEntity shoppingcartEntity = new Entities.ShoppingcartEntity
{
CustomerId = entity.Id
};
_context.Add(shoppingcartEntity);
// I am using the aproach of sending the data over after each change instead of having a universal save button
Save();
}
public void Add(Customer genericType)
{
context.DBCustomers.Add(mapperCustomer.Map(genericType, context));
context.SaveChanges();
}