Entity Framework Extensions Audit

Description

The EFE audit feature allows you to track changes of all modifications that happened in the database during the Bulk Operations. Also, it lets you create a history of who modified a table, what was an old value and a new value.

Key Features

  • Allow getting a history of modification
  • Allow storing the history in a database or log file
  • Allow tracking who, what, when a modification occurred
  • Allow knowing what the old and the new value are

Getting Started

To use the audit feature, you need to enable it and provide a list of the AuditEntry that will be populated during the operations.

// Execute
List<AuditEntry> auditEntries = new List<AuditEntry>();
context.BulkMerge(list, options =>
{
    options.UseAudit = true;
    options.AuditEntries = auditEntries;
});

Try it: .NET Core | .NET Framework

Scenarios

Options

Name Description
UseAudit Gets or sets the UseAudit property. When the UseAudit property is true, the AuditEntries property stores auditing metadata about INSERTED, UPDATED, and DELETED rows and values.
AuditEntries Gets or sets the AuditEntries property. The AuditEntries property stores auditing metadata about INSERTED, UPDATED, and DELETED rows and values. This option requires to set the UseAudit property to true.

Methods

Name Description
AuditMode The AuditMode method allows you to exclude or include properties from the auditing.

Entities

Name Description
AuditActionType The AuditActionType enum represents the action that has been performed (Delete, Insert or Update).
AuditEntry The AuditEntry class represents the auditing row metadata that has been modified.
AuditEntryItem The AuditEntryItem class represents the auditing value metadata of a row that has been modified.
AuditModeType The AuditModeType enum represents if all properties should be included or excluded from the auditing. The default value is AuditModeType.IncludeAll.
ColumnMappingAuditModeType The ColumnMappingAuditModeType enum represents if a specific property should be included or excluded from the auditing. The default value is ColumnMappingAuditModeType.Inherit.

FAQ

Why enabling this option decreases the performance?

When enabling this option, additional SQL are required such as returning all old and new values.

Last updated: 2023-03-01
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