290 posts tagged with ".NET"

A POST with perfectly good JSON came back as 415 Unsupported Media Type, and the API's log had nothing to say about it. The JSON wasn't the problem: the request never said it was JSON. curl labels a -d body as a web form unless you tell it otherwise, and a minimal API endpoint that expects JSON won't touch that.

The most ordinary line of logging you can write, logger.LogInformation("Counted {Count} products", count), stopped my build: error CA1848: For improved performance, use the LoggerMessage delegates instead of calling 'LoggerExtensions.LogInformation'. The solution turns analyzer warnings into errors, so this rule has teeth. The fix is the [LoggerMessage] source generator, which is a few lines more and gives you faster logging.

error CS0266: Cannot implicitly convert type 'decimal?' to 'decimal'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) A nullable value can be empty, and a plain decimal can't hold "empty", so C# won't copy one to the other without being told how. The cast the message suggests compiles, but it throws at runtime if the value is null, so choose what should happen in that case.

error CS8629: Nullable value type may be null. I'd used request.UnitPrice.Value on a decimal?, and the project treats warnings as errors, so the build stopped. Validation guarantees the value is there before my code runs, but the compiler can't see validation. You tell it what you know, in one of three ways.

A small minimal API endpoint wouldn't compile: error CS1593: Delegate 'RequestDelegate' does not take 2 arguments. My lambda had two parameters, as lambdas do, so the message made no sense at first. It's about the lambda's return value: TypedResults.NotFound() and TypedResults.Ok(…) have different types, so C# can't tell what the lambda returns, and ends up trying a different MapGet overload.

The build stopped with error CS1929: 'DbSet<Category>' does not contain a definition for 'FirstOrDefaultAsync' and the best extension method overload 'AsyncEnumerable.FirstOrDefaultAsync…' requires a receiver of type…. ToListAsync failed with a different message, CS0411. On .NET 10, both mean the same simple thing: the file is missing using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;.

FirstOrDefaultAsync() returned a row, and EF Core logged a warning with it: The query uses the 'First'/'FirstOrDefault' operator without 'OrderBy' and filter operators. This may lead to unpredictable results. The word "first" needs an order to mean anything, and SQL doesn't give you one by itself. An OrderBy or a Where makes the warning go away, and the answer reliable.

My paging endpoint answered 200 OK, and the log had a warning: The query uses a row limiting operator ('Skip'/'Take') without an 'OrderBy' operator. This may lead to unpredictable results. It's right to warn. Without ORDER BY, MySQL returned the rows in the order of whichever index it happened to read, so the next query could give a different page. Adding a fully unique sort fixes it.

I added StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase to a Contains in an EF Core query, to make sure the search ignored case. With Oracle's MySQL provider, it failed with an unusual message: Expression '[SqlExpressions.SqlFunctionExpression] COLLATE utf8mb4_bin' in the SQL tree does not have a type mapping assigned. The search was already ignoring case, because the column's collation does. Removing the argument fixed it.

A search for usb with Contains found five products named USB-C …. The same search with StartsWith found none, and neither threw an error. With Oracle's MySQL provider for EF Core, StartsWith and EndsWith compare with a case-sensitive collation, while Contains uses the column's own, which ignores case. EF.Functions.Like gives you a prefix search that follows the column.