Settings for describing your basic database information and adding a DbContext to your Web API.
An object that describes the basic information for your database. At the moment, only one application DbContext is supported per API.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| DbContextName | Yes | A single key value pair that designates the name you want to use for your API. | None |
| DatabaseName | Yes | The name of your database. | None |
| Provider | No | An enumerator that designated the database provider for your DbContext. Case insensitive. | SqlServer |
| NamingConvention | No | The naming convention for your database. Case insensitive. | SnakeCase |
These are the valid options for the Provider property:
You can still add MySql to your project manually. It has not been built in directly yet because, as of writing this, the MySQl nuget package is currently in pre-release, so you'll either want to add the prerelease or drop back to .NET Core 3.1 until it's ready.
Class uses the built in .NET stylingIn this example, we are creating a Sql Server database with a database name of VetClinic and a DbContext of VetClinicDbContext.
DbContext:
ContextName: VetClinicDbContext
DatabaseName: VetClinic
Provider: SqlServer