EntityChange

Library to compare two entity object graphs detecting changes

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The EntityChange library is available on nuget.org via package name EntityChange.

To install EntityChange, run the following command in the Package Manager Console

PM> Install-Package EntityChange

More information about NuGet package available at https://nuget.org/packages/EntityChange

Features

• Compare complete entity graph including child entities, collections and dictionaries
• Collection compare by index or element equality
• Dictionary compare by key
• Custom value string formatter
• Custom entity equality compare
• Markdown or Html change report formatter

Configuration

Configure the Contact properties and collections.

EntityChange.Configuration.Default.Configure(config => config
    .Entity<Contact>(e =>
    {
        // set the FirstName display name
        e.Property(p => p.FirstName).Display("First Name");
        // compare the Roles collection by string equality
        e.Collection(p => p.Roles)
            .CollectionComparison(CollectionComparison.ObjectEquality)
            .ElementEquality(StringEquality.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
        // set how to format the EmailAddress entity as a string
        e.Collection(p => p.EmailAddresses).ElementFormatter(v =>
        {
            var address = v as EmailAddress;
            return address?.Address;
        });
    })
    .Entity<EmailAddress>(e =>
    {
        e.Property(p => p.Address).Display("Email Address");
    })
);

Comparison

Compare to Contact entities

// create comparer using default configuration
var comparer = new EntityComparer();

// compare original and current instances generating change list 
var changes = comparer.Compare(original, current).ToList();

Change Report

Sample output from the MarkdownFormatter

OUTPUT

• Removed Administrator from Roles
• Changed Email Address from user@Personal.com to user@gmail.com
• Added user@home.com to Email Addresses
• Changed Status from New to Verified
• Changed Updated from 5/17/2016 8:51:59 PM to 5/17/2016 8:52:00 PM
• Changed Zip from 10026 to 10027
• Changed Number from 888-555-1212 to 800-555-1212
• Added Blah to Categories
• Changed Data from 1 to 2
• Changed Data from ./home to ./path