ASP.NETCore - Friends System

Question

I`m building an application where I try to make a friend system.

Now, I work with 2 tables for that. 1st: Default AspNetUsers where i store user information.

2nd: Friends Table as below:

    public class AspNetFriends
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public string friendFrom { get; set; }
    public string friendTo { get; set; }
    public bool isConfirmed { get; set; }
}

In this table both "friendFrom" and "friendTo" is string type, and receiving the registered users ID.

What i want to achieve is that when i display this table on my view, i want to show the Username of the same UserID thats either in the "friendFrom" or "friendTo" column.

Answer 1

You need to change your class as followed (I didn't test this):

Default application user of asp.net core

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore;

namespace project.Models
{
    // Add profile data for application users by adding properties to the ApplicationUser class
    public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
    {

    }
}

Model

public class AspNetFriends
{
    public int ID { get; set; }
    public bool isConfirmed { get; set; }
    public virtual ApplicationUser friendFrom { get; set; }
    public virtual ApplicationUser friendTo { get; set; }
}

Now you can get to the getters and setters of the aspnet user

Controller

public async Task<IActionResult> Details(int id)
{
    var query = from m in _dbContext.AspNetFriends
                    join ff in _dbContext.Users on
                        new { m.friendFrom.Id } equals new { Id = cu.Id }
                    join ft in _dbContext.Users on
                        new { m.friendTo.Id } equals new { Id = cu.Id }
                        where m.ID == id
                        select m;

    return View(query.Single());
 }

View

@model project.AspNetFriends

<p>
@model.friendFrom.UserName
</P>

@item.CreationUser.UserName