How to resolve KinveyReference in Xamarin : Progress Kinvey

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Jacob Jozwiak

started a topic almost 5 years ago

Hi

I have a collection called "Occupation", an Occupation can have multiple "Available Skills". The Skills are stored in their own Collection called "Skill". I have defined my Occupation entity object as follows:

    public class Occupation : EntityBase
    {
        public static string CollectionName = "Occupation";

        [JsonProperty]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [JsonProperty]
        public List<KinveyReference<Skill>> AvailableSkills { get; set; }

        public Occupation() : base()
        {

            AvailableSkills = new List<KinveyReference<Skill>>();
        }
    }

I have managed to add a Skill to the AvailableSkills list, and that is persisted on the server without issue. My problem is however, when I retrieve the occupation entity, the "resolved" property of the KinveyReference is null. What is the best way to resolve the reference so that I can get the actual skill object when I retrieve the occupation object?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jacob

W

Wani

said almost 5 years ago

Hi Jacob,

I am looking into this now. I have also involved a colleague who has some Xamarin experience.

Can you paste the code you are using to fetch occupation entities?

Regards,

Wani

Kinvey Support

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Jacob Jozwiak

said almost 5 years ago

Hi Wani

This is the code that I'm using:

        public async Task<List<Occupation>> GetOccupations()
        {
            var occupations = await _service.FetchAllEntities<Occupation>(Occupation.CollectionName);
            
            return occupations.ToList();
        }

The FetchAllEntities method looks like this:

public async Task<T[]> FetchAllEntities<T>(string collectionName)
{
    return await Client.AppData<T>(collectionName, typeof(T)).GetAsync();
}

As mentioned before, I get a List of KinveyReferences back, but the resolvedEntity property is null on each of the items in the list. I tried calling getResolvedEntity() on each of the objects in the list, but they come back as null as well.

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