namespace Before;
///
/// Base class for every DB-backed domain object. Fakes the active-record part
/// of EF: each entity carries its own and, once it has been
/// created/saved through a context, a back-reference to that context.
///
/// is the dependency this base class leaks. The
/// "after" situation (Yak 02) removes this inheritance entirely — domain
/// objects become plain POCOs that know nothing about a DbContext.
///
public class DbBase
{
///
/// Primary key. Fresh (unsaved) entities have ;
/// assigns a real id, faking EF's identity
/// generation.
///
public Guid Id { get; set; }
///
/// Active-record back-reference: "I know which context created me". This
/// is the leak the exercise exposes — from a plain domain object you can
/// reach straight into the persistence layer. internal set because
/// only the owning may (re)assign it; consumers
/// (including the WebApp, and the tests) can only read it.
///
public DbContext? DbContext { get; internal set; }
///
/// Generic ActiveRecord-style finder: walks the 's tracked entities, looks for the first whose runtime type matches
/// and satisfies
///.
///
/// This static generic rides the DbContext leak just like
/// , but works for any subtype without each entity needing its own hand-written finder.
///
/// Entity type to find (must derive from ).
///
/// Filter applied to candidates of type .
///
/// The context whose tracked entities to search.
///
/// The first matching entity, or null when no match.
///
public static T? Find(Predicate predicate, DbContext? db) where T : DbBase
{
if (db is null)
return default;
foreach (var e in db.Tracked)
if (e is T candidate && predicate(candidate))
return candidate;
return default;
}
}