ASP.NET WebApi OData support for DTOs

Question

I have Project entity and ProjectDTO. I'm trying to create an WebAPI controller method that can take and return ProjectDTOs and make it support OData.

The problem is that I'm using ORM that can query the database using Project entity not Project DTO. Is there any way that I can apply filtering/sorting/paging from OData based on ProjectDTO to Project entity query?

public ODataQueryResult<ProjectDTO> GetProjects(ODataQueryOptions<ProjectDTO> query)
{
    var context = new ORM_Context();

    var projects = context.Projects; // IQueryable<Project>
    var projectDtos = query.ApplyTo(projectDTOs)); // <-- I want to achieve something similar here
    var projectDTOs =
        projects.Select(
            x =>
            new ProjectDTO
                {
                    Id = x.Id,
                    Name = x.Name
                });

    var projectsQueriedList = projectDtos.ToList();

    var result = new ODataQueryResult<ProjectDTO>(projectsQueriedList, totalCount);

    return result;
}

Answer 1

Something like this (I haven't tried to compile it)

using(var dataContext = new ORM_Context())
{
    var projects = dataContext.Projects; // IQueryable<Project>

    //Create a set of ODataQueryOptions for the internal class
    ODataModelBuilder modelBuilder = new ODataConventionModelBuilder();
    modelBuilder.EntitySet<Project>("Project"); 
    var context = new ODataQueryContext(
         modelBuilder.GetEdmModel(), typeof(Project));
    var newOptions = new ODataQueryOptions<Project>(context, Request);

    var t = new ODataValidationSettings() { MaxTop = 25 };
    var s = new ODataQuerySettings() { PageSize = 25 };
    newOptions.Validate(t);
    IEnumerable<Project> internalResults =
        (IEnumerable<Project>)newOptions.ApplyTo(projects, s);

    int skip = newOptions.Skip == null ? 0 : newOptions.Skip.Value;
    int take = newOptions.Top == null ? 25 : newOptions.Top.Value;

    var projectDTOs =
            internalResults.Skip(skip).Take(take).Select(x =>
                new ProjectDTO
                    {
                        Id = x.Id,
                        Name = x.Name
                    });

    var projectsQueriedList = projectDtos.ToList();
    var result = new ODataQueryResult<ProjectDTO>(
        projectsQueriedList, totalCount);
    return result;
}