API Review: Scaffolding changes

[bricelam]

• Rename AnnotationRendererBase to AnnotationCodeGenerator
• Rename IAnnotationRenderer to IAnnotationCodeGenerator
• Remove the following
  • RelationalForeignKeyAnnotations.GetDefaultForeignKeyName
  • RelationalIndexAnnotations.GetDefaultIndexName
• Revert making RelationalKeyAnnotations.GetDefaultName public
• Move the following to Internal namespace or remove them if they'll show up on app code
  • ScaffoldingEntityTypeAnnotations
  • ScaffoldingMetadataExtensions
  • ScaffoldingModelAnnotations
  • ScaffoldingPropertyAnnotations
• Rename IScaffoldingHelper to IScaffoldingCodeGenerator
• Rename IScaffoldingHelper.GetProviderOptionsBuilder to GenerateUseProvider
• Move IScaffoldingHelper.GetTypeScaffoldingInfo to a different interface or investigate improving its design
• Investigate whether ScaffoldingTypeMapper can move to Internal namespace

[weitzhandler]

I'm waiting for this to come live.

I'd really love to see an end-to-end entity graph management for disconnected clients.
Something like Breeze# or Trackable-Entities.

I believe with scaffolding this will become a step closer.

[ajcvickers]

@weitzhandler What are you waiting for here? These are just renames, and they were already pushed and released in preview2.

[weitzhandler]

@ajcvickers
Sorry then.
I'm not really using EF7 yet, just playing around (it's missing Complex-Types and TPT - key features mandatory to us).
When I shall start using it (once those 2 aspects are addressed), I'm noting to myself a point where gathering metadata can be made easier.

Really I wish the EF team would implement or adopt an in-house solution for disconnected entity graph manipulation and caching for clients.
Specific use case would be to support UWP and Xamarin.Forms apps, which is currently a nightmare involving a lot of repetitive work.

[bricelam]

Have you seen Azure Mobile Apps? Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for...

[weitzhandler]

Thanks for the reply @bricelam
I've fiddled with it a little bit, and from what I understood, it's good if you build your project from scratch based on it, additionally I haven't found support for committing complete graph change, which is the issue i was concerned with.
I wish I'm wrong, can you mention here someone from the Azure team?

[weitzhandler]

Besides Azure tables doesn't give an answer to dealing with complex entity graphs, like TrackableEntities or Breeze does. Please see my comments on #5536.