I was trying to clear all rows from a multi-level hierarchy with these types of statements:

            adapter.DeleteEntitiesDirectly(typeof(PersonEntity), null);
            adapter.DeleteEntitiesDirectly(typeof(LegalBodyEntity), null);

and came across the "No parameterless constructor defined for this object" on the abstract root entity.

I saw your reply in an old 2008 post about Activator.CreateInstance.

There is an overload with a bool that allows use of nonpublic ctors which would solve this problem.

Cheers Simon

(Of course the string overload version works too for now)

(Of course the string overload version works too for now)

Should we consider this solved?

Walaa wrote:

(Of course the string overload version works too for now)

Should we consider this solved?

Well that's up to you of course.

However, personally, I don't like hard-coding strings in code and since the generated code doesn't provide a constant, I would prefer to be able to use the overload with Type for which I have provided a solution which should just work.

Then again, I also prefer generic methods and optional parameters, so I actually prefer

public virtual void DeleteEntitiesDirectly<T>(IRelationPredicateBucket filterBucket = null) where T: CommonBaseEntity

making my code

adapter.DeleteEntitiesDirectly<LegalBodyEntity>();

Incidentally, why aren't optional parameter used? They would make code a lot cleaner.

EntityType.LegalBodyEntity.ToString();

This will get you the string name, without hardcoding strings

Walaa wrote:

EntityType.LegalBodyEntity.ToString();

This will get you the string name, without hardcoding strings

Ok, fair enough - I missed that one.

However, I override ToString() in the base entity class so that it displays the entity ID etc. Will add a property calling base.ToString(). Thanks.