Fluent API

[Daniel-Svensson]

Open RIA Services needs to move to a Fluent API as the default configuration method.

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[Daniel-Svensson]

[APErebus@2013-10-17]
I'm curious to know what the process of this would be.

Are we using the fluent config instead of the data attributes (for [Include], [Exclude] etc.?)

[Daniel-Svensson]

[ColinBlair@2013-10-23]
Yes, there was a fluent configuration add-on for WCF RIA Services but with Open RIA Services we will make it the default configuration. Implementation wise it will be very similar to Entity Framework's fluent configuration.

[Daniel-Svensson]

The community project was migrated to https://github.com/OpenRIAServices/OpenRiaServices.FluentMetadata .

The solution is somewhat elegant but have some drawbacks for shared entities.
where it is not clear that the configuration of an entity type needs to be the same in alla services (since there is only 1 client side version of it generated)