Entity framework Core Raw SQLQueries with custom model

Question

Using Entity Framework 6, I was able to use execute a Raw SQL Query and use a custom model which was not defined in the DBContext in order to store the output of the query. A simple example is the following:

List<MyModel> data = context.Database.SqlQuery<MyModel>("SELECT Orders.OrderID, Customers.CustomerName FROM Orders INNER JOIN Customers ON Orders.CustomerID=Customers.CustomerID;").ToList();

I execute one SQL command and I expect a list of custom models.

I try to do something similar with Entity Framework Core and the closest example that I found will force me to define a property from DBContext. This will not allow me to use a custom model to fill the data that SQL server will return.

var books = context.Books.FromSql("SELECT * FROM Books").ToList();

This query informs Entity Framework Core that the query will return a list of books. Is there a way to implement something like this in Entity Framework Core?

Answer 1

The question was about .NET Core 2. Now I have a solution and I am going to write it here so that someone else could use it in case he/she needs it.

First of all we add the following method in dbContext class

public List<T> ExecSQL<T>(string query)
{
    using (var command = Database.GetDbConnection().CreateCommand())
    {
        command.CommandText = query;
        command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
        Database.OpenConnection();

        List<T> list = new List<T>();
        using (var result = command.ExecuteReader())
        {
            T obj = default(T);
            while (result.Read())
            {
                obj = Activator.CreateInstance<T>();
                foreach (PropertyInfo prop in obj.GetType().GetProperties())
                {
                    if (!object.Equals(result[prop.Name], DBNull.Value))
                    {
                        prop.SetValue(obj, result[prop.Name], null);
                    }
                }
                list.Add(obj);
            }
        }
        Database.CloseConnection();
        return list;
    }
}

Now we can have the following code.

List<Customer> Customers = _context.ExecSQL<Customer>("SELECT ......");