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    Posted: 12-Jul-2007 at 7:57pm

How do we check for the existence of an dynamic entity prior to creating a new one?

For e.g, I create such an entity, as below.
 

DynamicEntityTypeBuilder.CreateType("ProjectTypeCount", "Default")

If this line executes a second time, I get a message that says "Entity already exists".
 
How can I query the persistence manager to check if this entity already exists ?
 
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Naveen,
 

You can use EntityTypeInfo.GetAllDynamicTypes()to iterate through all of the types in the PersistenceManager cache.  Try something like this

 

      foreach (EntityTypeInfo eti in EntityTypeInfo.GetAllDynamicTypes()) {

        if (typeof(DynamicEntity).IsAssignableFrom(eti.EntityType) && (eti.DataSourceExtension == this.mPm1.DataSourceExtension)) {

          /// Add code to compare Entity types

                }

      }

 

Note that the EntityTypeInfoGetAllDynamicTypes method is unfortunately misnamed – it will return all known entity types, and also returns everything for all known data source extensions.  (We might enter a defect report to fix this.)  Anyway, if you then filter out actual dynamic types for your data source extension, you can then compare the dynamic type that you found with the dynamic type that you would like to create.

 
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If you already know the "dynamic type key name" then you can also look for it directly, like this:
 
EntityTypeInfo info = EntityTypeInfo.GetByDynamicTypeKey("ProjectTypeCount");

if (info == null) {

   // Create dynamic type
 
}
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