DbTool utility and Korzh.DbUtils packages

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This repository contains the sources for:

• Korzh.DbUtils library - a set of classes and packages for different manipulations with database data (export, import, data seeding).

• dbtool utility - a .NET Core global tool which provides DB exporting/importing functions via a command-line interface.

This set of tools can help you with exporting your database content to some format (XML or JSON currently) and then use that exported data to seed your database on another machine in a simple and convenient way.

DbTool utility

dbtool is .NET Core global tool, so installation is as simple as for any other global tool (provided that you already have .NET Core SDK 2.1 or higher installed on your computer):

dotnet tool install -g Korzh.DbTool

Adding a connection

dbtool stores the information about DB connections and some other settings in a global configuration file ({USERDIR}/.korzh/dbtool.config), so register your connection in that list you need to call connections add command:

dbtool connections add {Connection ID} {DB Type (sqlserver|mysql|postgre)} {Connection string}

For example:

dbtool connections add demo1 sqlserver "Data Source=(localdb)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Initial Catalog=EqDemoDb07;Integrated Security=True;"

Exporting DB data

Now, when the connection is defined you can export your DB data to some common format (JSON or XML for now):

dbtool export {Connection ID} [--format=xml|json] [--output=path] [--zip=filename]

All options (--format, --output and --zip) can be omitted. In this case the tool will use JSON format and will store all exported data in a {Connection ID}-YYYYMMDD folder (without ZIP packing).

For example the following command:

dbtool export demo1 --format=xml --output=MyDbData

will export your DB to a bunch of XML files and then put those files into MyDbData folder.

Importing data to DB

You can import the data created on the previous step back to your DB. Or to any other DB with the same structure.

NB: DbTool does not create tables during the importing operation. So you database must exist already and has the same (or at least a similar) structure as the original one.

Here is how your import command should look like:

dbtool import {Connection ID} [--input=path] [--format=xml|json]

--input option tells utility to search for the data by the specified path. If that path is a folder - then it will look for .xml or .json files in that folder. If it's a ZIP file - then it will unpack that archive first and take necessary data files from there.

--format can be omitted since DbTool can recognize the format by files' extensions.

Example:

dbtool import demo1 --input=MyDbData.zip

Korzh.DbUtils library

The library includes several packages which implement some basic database operations:

• Korzh.DbUtils

  Defines basic abstractions and interfaces like IDatasetExporter, IDatasetImporter, IDataPacker, IDbBridge

• Korzh.DbUtils.Import

  Contains implementations or IDatasetImporter interface for XML and JSON formats. Additionally, it contains DbInitializer class which can be used for data seeding in your projects.

• Korzh.DbUtils.Export

Contains implementations of IDatasetExporter for XML and JSON.

• Korzh.DbUtils.SqlServer

  Implements DB manipulation interfaces (IDbBridge, IDbReader, IDbSeeder) for MS SQL Server connections.

• Korzh.DbUtils.MySQL

  Implements DB manipulation interfaces for MySQL connections.

• Korzh.DbUtils.PostgreSql

  Implements DB manipulation interfaces for PosrgreSql connections.

Here you can find the full API reference of the library.

Basic scenario: Data seeding in your app

Let's suppose you have a "master copy" of some DB which you need to duplicate on user's machine on the first start of your application. It's quite usual situation when you need to distribute some demonstration project for your class library (like we do a lot of time during our work on EasyQuery library) or it's local database for you desktop application which must be seeded with some default data.

Here is how you solve this task with our DbUtils tool set.

Step 1: Export you "master" DB

Just install dbtool as it's described above, add a connection to you DB and then export all data from it to some folder:

dotnet tool install -g Korzh.DbTool

dbtool connections add MyMasterDb sqlserver "{the connection string to your DB}"

dbtool export MyMasterDb

Step 2: Add data files to your project

After the previous step you will have a new folder like MyMasterDb-20190720 with a bunch of JSON files in it (one for each table). Copy all these files to your project's folder to App_Data\DbSeed sub-folder. Please note, that you will also need to add those files to your project manually for .NET Framework projects.

Step 3: DB initialization code

Let's suppose we have a ASP.NET Core project and we need to seed our DB with the data on the first start. The database itself is created automatically with Entity Framework Core migrations. To seed it with the data we just need:

1. Install Korzh.DbUtils NuGet packages

In this case we will need 2 of them:

• Korzh.DbUtils.Import

• Korzh.DbUtils.SqlServer

2. Add the initialization code

Here is an example of the such code we need to add at the end of Startup.Configure method:

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
    .     .     .     .

    app.UseMvc();

    using (var scope = app.ApplicationServices.GetRequiredService<IServiceScopeFactory>().CreateScope())
    using (var context = scope.ServiceProvider.GetService<AppDbContext>()) {
        if (context.Database.EnsureCreated()) { //run only if database was not created previously
            Korzh.DbUtils.DbInitializer.Create(options => {
                options.UseSqlServer(Configuration.GetConnectionString("MyDemoDb")); //set the connection string for our database
                options.UseFileFolderPacker(System.IO.Path.Combine(env.ContentRootPath, "App_Data", "SeedData")); //set the folder where to get the seeding data
            })
            .Seed();
        }
    }
}

That's it. With the above 3 simple steps your database will be created and seeded automatically on the first app start.