I am using EF6 and MySql and attepting to insert two new, related objects Client and Quote (where Quote has a Client) in a single call to save changes. This should map to an insert to the the client table and an insert to the quote table. Code is:
var client = new Client();
db.Client.Add(client);
var quote = new Quote();
quote.Client = client;
db.Quote.Add(quote);
db.SaveChanges();
Exception is:
Additional information: An error occurred while updating the entries. See the inner exception for details.
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.SaveChanges()
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.LazyInternalContext.SaveChanges()
at System.Data.Entity.DbContext.SaveChanges()
at MyTestClass...
Inner Exception is:
{"The specified value is not an instance of a valid constant type.\r\nParameter name: type"}
at System.Data.Entity.Core.Mapping.Update.Internal.UpdateTranslator.Update()
at System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient.Internal.EntityAdapter.<Update>b__2(UpdateTranslator ut)
at System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient.Internal.EntityAdapter.Update[T](T noChangesResult, Func`2 updateFunction, Boolean throwOnClosedConnection)
at System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityClient.Internal.EntityAdapter.Update(Boolean throwOnClosedConnection)
at System.Data.Entity.Core.Objects.ObjectContext.<SaveChangesToStore>b__33()
at System.Data.Entity.Core.Objects.ObjectContext.ExecuteInTransaction[T](Func`1 func, IDbExecutionStrategy executionStrategy, Boolean startLocalTransaction, Boolean releaseConnectionOnSuccess)
at System.Data.Entity.Core.Objects.ObjectContext.SaveChangesToStore(SaveOptions options, IDbExecutionStrategy executionStrategy)
at System.Data.Entity.Core.Objects.ObjectContext.<>c__DisplayClass28.<SaveChanges>b__25()
at System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.DefaultExecutionStrategy.Execute[TResult](Func`1 operation)
at System.Data.Entity.Core.Objects.ObjectContext.SaveChanges(SaveOptions options)
at System.Data.Entity.Internal.InternalContext.SaveChanges()
Entity classes:
public class Client
{
//AUTO_INCREMENT
[Key]
public long Id { get; set; }
....
}
public class Quote
{
//AUTO_INCREMENT
[Column("id")]
[Key]
public long Id { get; set; }
[Column("client")]
[ForeignKey("Client")]
public long ClientId { get; set; }
public virtual Client Client { get; set; }
...
}
Libraries:
If I add a db.SaveChanges() after the db.Client.Add(client) line, it will work ok but I want to do a SavChanges as late as possible to to group database calls. Any ideas what could be going wrong?
I cannot reproduce this, more details on my test case are available in the http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?38,608603,608603#msg-608603 (where you also posted the question).
Thanks.