SNIKT!

Snkit! is nothing but a light-weight micro-ORM. Originally, it is the switchblade-sound of Wolverine's claws locking into place.

OVERVIEW

I wrote Snikt! to take away the pain of data access logic.

• It is a simple Assembly you can refer in your Data Access Layer that will provide utilities, wrappers, and extensions to simplify work in the data access objects.
• Snikt! provides database connection lifetime management and execution store commands.
• It materialize CLR-types given a data reader as well as result set of a store command.
• It has templates and abstract classes for business entities, data access objects, and search query arguments.
• Snikt! has no database specific implementations. Technically, you should be able to use it on MySQL, SQL Server, or even on Oracle.

LICENSE

Snikt! code is free for commercial and non-commercial deployments and distribution. Snikt! is release under MIT License.

FEATURES

Snikt! provides 3 simple helpers:

• Materializer.cs
• Database.cs
• DbConnectionFactory.cs

Map query results to a strong-typed list

IDataReader queryResult = command.ExecuteReader();
Materializer<Category> categoryMaterializer = new Materializer<Category>(queryResult);
List<Category> categories = new List<Category>();
while (queryResult.Read())
{
    categories.Add(categoryMaterializer.Materialize(queryResult));
}

Assert.IsTrue(categories.Any());

Execute a Stored Procedure

IDatabase db = new Database("name=DefaultConnection");

List<Category> categories = db.SqlQuery<Category>("dbo.GetAllCategories").ToList();

Assert.IsTrue(categories.Any());

Execute a Stored Procedure that obtain Parameters

IDatabase db = new Database("name=DefaultConnection");
var criteria = new { Id = 1 };

List<Category> categories = db.SqlQuery<Category>("dbo.GetCategory", criteria).ToList();

foreach (Category cat in categories)
{
    Assert.AreEqual(criteria.Id, cat.Id);
}

Provide DbContext as the Connection

public class DbContextConnectionFactory : IDbConnectionFactory
{
    public IDbConnection CreateIfNotExists(string nameOrConnectionString)
    {
		MiniNWDbContext dbContext = new MiniNWDbContext("name=DefaultConnection");
        return dbContext.Database.Connection;
    }
}

IDatabase db = new Database("name=DefaultConnection", new DbContextConnectionFactory());
List<Category> categories = db.SqlQuery<Category>("dbo.GetAllCategories").ToList();
Assert.IsTrue(categories.Any());

OTHER RESOURCES

Snikt! is created to demonstrate How to apply some of the available .NET technologies with the Data Access Layer in Layered Architecture design pattern. The main focus of the specifications is How to code the Data Access Layer? and not the actual functionality of the chosen MiniNW application.

• Snikt! has a comprehensive test project that demonstrates How Do I in Specifications.
• You can download the Snikt! NuGet package from NuGet Gallery.

/KP
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t: @kosalanuwan
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