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export interface Person {
  name: string;
  age: number;
}

export class LinqTestsComponent {

  people: Person[] = [
    { name: "User 4", age: 27 },
    { name: "User 5", age: 42 },
    { name: "User 6", age: 8 },
    { name: "User 1", age: 20 },
    { name: "User 2", age: 35 },
    { name: "User 3", age: 78 }
  ];

}

  logTitle(title: string) {
    console.log(`%c${title}`, "background: #222; color: #bada55");
  }

  logOriginalArray() {
    console.log(`original this.people:${JSON.stringify(this.people)}`);
  }

  logResult(message: string, result: any) {
    console.log(`${message}:${JSON.stringify(result)}`);
  }

  equivalentToWhere() {
    const youngerThan40 = this.people.filter(person => person.age < 40); // ECMAScript 5
    this.logResult("People younger than 40", youngerThan40);

    // Filtering on Multiple Criteria
    const youngsters = this.people.filter(
      person => person.age < 40 && person.name.toLocaleLowerCase().indexOf("user") !== -1);
    this.logResult("Users younger than 40", youngsters);
  }

People younger than 40:[
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 6","age":8},
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 2","age":35}
]

Users younger than 40:[
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 6","age":8},
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 2","age":35}
]

  equivalentToAny() {

    const anyUnder40 = this.people.some(person => person.age < 40); // ECMAScript 5
    this.logResult("Are any people under 40?", anyUnder40); // true

    // Filtering on Criteria Matching any Object Properties
    const filterBy = "user";
    const anyUsers = this.people.filter(person =>
      Object.keys(person).some(property => {
        let value = (<any>person)[property];
        if (typeof value === "string") {
          value = value.toLocaleLowerCase();
        }
        return value.toString().indexOf(filterBy) !== -1;
      })
    );
    this.logResult("anyUsers", anyUsers);
  }

Are any people under 40?:true
anyUsers:[
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 5","age":42},
{"name":"User 6","age":8},
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 2","age":35},
{"name":"User 3","age":78}
]

  equivalentToContains() {

    const searchElement: Person = { name: "User 4", age: 27 };
    const containsUser4 = this.people.includes(searchElement); // ECMAScript 2016 = ECMAScript 7
    this.logResult("Contains searchElement", containsUser4); // false -> only compares by reference and not by value.

    const indexOfUser4 = this.people.indexOf(searchElement); // ECMAScript 5
    this.logResult("indexOfUser4", indexOfUser4); // -1 -> only compares by reference and not by value.

    const stringifiedObj = JSON.stringify(searchElement);
    const includesUser4 = this.people.some(person => JSON.stringify(person) === stringifiedObj);
    this.logResult("includesUser4", includesUser4); // true -> compares by by value.
  }

  equivalentToAll() {
    const allUnder30 = this.people.every(person => person.age < 30); // ECMAScript 5
    this.logResult("Are all people under 30?", allUnder30); // false
  }

 Are all people under 30?:false

  equivalentToFirstOrDefault() {
    const vahidOrDefault = this.people.filter(item => item.name === "Vahid")[0] || null; // ECMAScript 5
    this.logResult("vahidOrDefault", vahidOrDefault);

    const user1OrDefault = this.people.find(item => item.name === "User 1") || null; // ECMAScript 2015 = ECMAScript 6
    this.logResult("user1OrDefault", user1OrDefault);
  }

  equivalentToFindIndex() {
    const index = this.people.findIndex(person => person.age === 8); // ECMAScript 2015 = ECMAScript 6
    this.logResult("index of the user with age 8", index)
  }

 index of the user with age 8:2

  equivalentToSelect() {
    const names = this.people.map(person => person.name); // ECMAScript 5
    this.logResult("Selected the names of people", names);
  }

  equivalentToAggregate() {
    // ECMAScript 5
    const aggregate = this.people.reduce((person1, person2) => {
      return { name: "", age: person1.age + person2.age };
    });
    this.logResult("Aggregate age", aggregate.age); // { age: 210 }
  }

 Aggregate age:210

  equivalentToForEach() {
    // ECMAScript 5
    this.people.forEach(person => {
      this.logResult("person", person);
    });
  }

 person:{"name":"User 4","age":27}
 person:{"name":"User 5","age":42}
 person:{"name":"User 6","age":8}
 person:{"name":"User 1","age":20}
 person:{"name":"User 2","age":35}
 person:{"name":"User 3","age":78}

    // ECMAScript 5
    let orderedByAgeAscending = this.people.sort((person1, person2) => {
      const a = person1.age;
      const b = person2.age;
      return a > b ? 1 : -1;
    });
    this.logResult("Ordered by age ascending", orderedByAgeAscending);

    orderedByAgeAscending = this.people.sort((person1, person2) => person1.age - person2.age);
    this.logResult("Ordered by age ascending", orderedByAgeAscending);

Ordered by age ascending:[
{"name":"User 6","age":8},
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 2","age":35},
{"name":"User 5","age":42},
{"name":"User 3","age":78}
]

    const orderedByName = this.people.sort((person1, person2) => {
      // name1.localeCompare(name2) // is case insensitive
      // or use toUpperCase() to ignore character casing
      const name1 = person1.name.toUpperCase();
      const name2 = person2.name.toUpperCase();
      return name1 > name2 ? 1 : -1;
    })
    this.logResult("Ordered by name", orderedByName);
    this.logOriginalArray();

Ordered by name:[
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 2","age":35},
{"name":"User 3","age":78},
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 5","age":42},
{"name":"User 6","age":8}
]

original this.people:[
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 2","age":35},
{"name":"User 3","age":78},
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 5","age":42},
{"name":"User 6","age":8}
]

  chainFunctionCalls() {
    const namesOfPeopleOver30OrderedDesc =
      this.people
        .filter(person => person.age > 30)
        .map(person => person.name)
        .sort((name1, name2) => {
          // name1.localeCompare(name2) // is case insensitive
          // or use toUpperCase() to ignore character casing
          name1 = name1.toUpperCase();
          name2 = name2.toUpperCase();
          return name2 > name1 ? 1 : -1;
        });
    this.logResult("the names of all people over 30 ordered by name descending", namesOfPeopleOver30OrderedDesc);
  }

 the names of all people over 30 ordered by name descending:["User 5","User 3","User 2"]

skip2 -> the deleted elements:[
{"name":"User 3","age":78},
{"name":"User 4","age":27},
{"name":"User 5","age":42},
{"name":"User 6","age":8}
]

original this.people:[
{"name":"User 1","age":20},
{"name":"User 2","age":35}
]

public abstract class BaseEntity
{
    protected BaseEntity()
    {
        TrackingState = TrackingState.Nochange;
    }

    public TrackingState TrackingState { get; set; }
}

public enum TrackingState
{
    Nochange,
    Add,
    Update,
    Remove,
}

public class Customer : BaseEntity
{
    public int CustomerId { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Company { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Phone> Phones { get; set; }
}

public class Phone : BaseEntity
{
    public int PhoneId { get; set; }
    public string Number { get; set; }
    public string PhoneType { get; set; }
    public int CustomerId { get; set; }
    public virtual Customer Customer { get; set; }
}

public class Recipe4Context : DbContext
{
    public Recipe4Context() : base("Recipe4ConnectionString") { }
    public DbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }
    public DbSet<Phone> Phones { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        // Do not persist TrackingState property to data store
        // This property is used internally to track state of
        // disconnected entities across service boundaries.
        // Leverage the Custom Code First Conventions features from Entity Framework 6.
        // Define a convention that performs a configuration for every entity
        // that derives from a base entity class.
        modelBuilder.Types<BaseEntity>().Configure(x => x.Ignore(y => y.TrackingState));
        modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>().ToTable("Customers");
        modelBuilder.Entity<Phone>().ToTable("Phones");
}
}

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="Recipe4ConnectionString"
    connectionString="Data Source=.;
    Initial Catalog=EFRecipes;
    Integrated Security=True;
    MultipleActiveResultSets=True"
    providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

protected void Application_Start()
{
    // Disable Entity Framework Model Compatibilty
    Database.SetInitializer<Recipe1Context>(null);
    // The bidirectional navigation properties between related entities
    // create a self-referencing loop that breaks Web API's effort to
    // serialize the objects as JSON. By default, Json.NET is configured
    // to error when a reference loop is detected. To resolve problem,
    // simply configure JSON serializer to ignore self-referencing loops.
    GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter
        .SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling =
            Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore;
    ...
}

public static EntityState Set(TrackingState trackingState)
{
    switch (trackingState)
    {
        case TrackingState.Add:
            return EntityState.Added;
        case TrackingState.Update:
            return EntityState.Modified;
        case TrackingState.Remove:
            return EntityState.Deleted;
        default:
            return EntityState.Unchanged;
    }
}

public class CustomerController : ApiController
{
    // GET api/customer
    public IEnumerable<Customer> Get()
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            return context.Customers.Include(x => x.Phones).ToList();
        }
    }

    // GET api/customer/5
    public Customer Get(int id)
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            return context.Customers.Include(x => x.Phones).FirstOrDefault(x => x.CustomerId == id);
        }
    }

    [ActionName("Update")]
    public HttpResponseMessage UpdateCustomer(Customer customer)
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            // Add object graph to context setting default state of 'Added'.
            // Adding parent to context automatically attaches entire graph
            // (parent and child entities) to context and sets state to 'Added'
            // for all entities.
            context.Customers.Add(customer);
            foreach (var entry in context.ChangeTracker.Entries<BaseEntity>())
            {
                entry.State = EntityStateFactory.Set(entry.Entity.TrackingState);
                if (entry.State == EntityState.Modified)
                {
                    // For entity updates, we fetch a current copy of the entity
                    // from the database and assign the values to the orginal values
                    // property from the Entry object. OriginalValues wrap a dictionary
                    // that represents the values of the entity before applying changes.
                    // The Entity Framework change tracker will detect
                    // differences between the current and original values and mark
                    // each property and the entity as modified. Start by setting
                    // the state for the entity as 'Unchanged'.
                    entry.State = EntityState.Unchanged;
                    var databaseValues = entry.GetDatabaseValues();
                    entry.OriginalValues.SetValues(databaseValues);
                }
            }

        context.SaveChanges();
    }

    return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, customer);
}

    [HttpDelete]
    [ActionName("Cleanup")]
    public HttpResponseMessage Cleanup()
    {
        using (var context = new Recipe4Context())
        {
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("delete from phones");
            context.Database.ExecuteSqlCommand("delete from customers");
            return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK);
        }
    }
}