[转]Wrapping multiple calls to SaveChanges() in a single transaction

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When you make any additions, modifications and deletions to an Entity  Framework DbSet and call SaveChanges(), EF starts a new transaction and executes  all the INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE operations inside that newly created  transaction. If the call to SaveChanges() succeeds the underlying transaction is  committed, otherwise the transaction is rolled back. In some cases you may want  that multiple calls to SaveChanges() be executed in the same transaction.  Luckily, Entity Framework 6 provides an easy way to accomplish the same.

Let‘s assume that you have an Entity Framework data model with Customer  entity as shown below:

Now suppose that you wrote the following code to add two Customer records to  the database.

NorthwindEntities db = new NorthwindEntities();

Customer obj1 = new Customer();
obj1.CustomerID = "ABCDE";
obj1.CompanyName = "Company 1";
obj1.ContactName = "Contact 1";
obj1.Country = "USA";
db.Customers.Add(obj1);

db.SaveChanges();

Customer obj2 = new Customer();
obj2.CustomerID = "PQRST";
obj2.CompanyName = "Company 2";
obj2.ContactName = "Contact 2";
obj2.Country = "USA";
db.Customers.Add(obj2);

db.SaveChanges();

In this case two calls to SaveChanges() are made. The first call adds the  first Customer to the database and the second call adds the other Customer to  the database. If the second call to SaveChanges() fails for some reason the  first Customer still gets added to the database because each call to SaveChanges()  runs in its own transaction.

Now let‘s modify this code as shown below:

using(NorthwindEntities db = new NorthwindEntities())
{
DbContextTransaction transaction = db.Database.BeginTransaction();

try
{
    //insert a record
    Customer obj1 = new Customer();
    obj1.CustomerID = "ABCDE";
    obj1.CompanyName = "Company 1";
    obj1.ContactName = "Contact 1";
    obj1.Country = "USA";
    db.Customers.Add(obj1);

    //first call to SaveChanges()

    db.SaveChanges();

    //insert another record
    Customer obj2 = new Customer();
    obj2.CustomerID = "PQRST";
    obj2.CompanyName = "Company 2";
    obj2.ContactName = "Contact 2";
    obj2.Country = "USA";
    db.Customers.Add(obj2);

    //second call to SaveChanges()

    db.SaveChanges();

    transaction.Commit();
}
catch
{
    transaction.Rollback();
}
}

Notice that the above code explicitly starts a transaction by calling  BeginTransaction() method on the Database property of the data context. The  BeginTransaction() returns a DbContextTransaction object which is stored in a  local variable. This object is used to either commit or rollback the transaction  later in the code.

The code then adds Customer entities as before and calls SaveChanges() after  each addition. This time since our code is explicitly creating a transaction,  both the calls to SaveChanges() are treated as the part of this transaction. If  both the calls to SaveChanges() are successful we call Commit() method of  DbContextTransaction object. If any of them fails we call the Rollback() method  of DbContextTransaction object.

You can test the above code by setting the CustomerID of the second Customer  to a string longer than five characters.

Note: There is also UseTransaction() method that can be used if you wish to couple EF  operations with plain ADO.NET transactions.

That‘s it for now! Keep coding !!

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