Instantiate IDataAdapter from instance of IDbConnection

Question

I have an instance of IDbConnection, which can be any connection, Sql, OleDb, etc. I want to make a generic wrapper so I can just send the wrapper a connection and get a nice set of methods for easy manipulation. I have a Query method, I want it to return a DataTable, so I can do

IDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter();
adapter.SelectCommand = myCommand;
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
adapter.Fill(ds);

The problem is I have to use OleDbAdapter and it wouldn't work for SQL, I don't really want to write "driver specific" code. Is there a way I can get a IDataAdapter instance from my instantiated IDbConnection object? I know I can create a command doing

IDbCommand command = _connection.CreateCommand();

It's only logical to think there must be some easy way to do the same with an IDataAdapter.

EDIT:

using (var reader = command.ExecuteReader())
{
    var dataTable = new DataTable();
    dataTable.Load(reader);
}

Well not exactly what I asked for but a nice solution.

Answer 1

Here is a rough example of how you could get the adapter using reflection.

IDataAdapter GetAdapter(IDbConnection connection) {
    var assembly = connection.GetType().Assembly;
    var @namespace = connection.GetType().Namespace;    

    // Assumes the factory is in the same namespace
    var factoryType = assembly.GetTypes()
                        .Where (x => x.Namespace == @namespace)
                        .Where (x => x.IsSubclassOf(typeof(DbProviderFactory)))
                        .Single();

    // SqlClientFactory and OleDbFactory both have an Instance field.
    var instanceFieldInfo = factoryType.GetField("Instance", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public);
    var factory = (DbProviderFactory) instanceFieldInfo.GetValue(null);

    return factory.CreateDataAdapter();
}

Answer 2

I had the same problem. This is how I solved it

private DataSet executeDataQuery(string query, string connection, string provider, out Exception ex) {
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        ex = null;
        DbProviderFactory dbFactory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory(provider);
        IDbConnection dbConnection = dbFactory.CreateConnection();
        dbConnection.ConnectionString = connection;
        using (dbConnection) {
            try {
                IDbDataAdapter dbAdapter = dbFactory.CreateDataAdapter();
                IDbCommand dbCommand = dbConnection.CreateCommand();
                dbCommand.CommandText = query;
                dbCommand.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
                dbAdapter.SelectCommand = dbCommand;
                dbAdapter.Fill(ds);
            }
            catch (Exception exc) {
                ex = exc;
            }
            finally {
                if (dbConnection.State == ConnectionState.Open) {
                    dbConnection.Close();
                }
            }
        }
        return ds;
    }