✏️ Best Restaurants in Town - Part 1
Goal: Build out an application using a one-to-many relationship with Entity. The application should include two models, both with full CRUD functionality.
Warm Up
- Give an example of a one-to-many relationship. How can you determine this is the correct relationship?
- How do we associate database entries?
- What is a navigation property?
- What is ViewBag and how is it useful?
Code
To Do List
Follow along with the homework lessons to build out a fully-functional To Do List with a one-to-many relationship between Category
s and Item
s.
Relations Practice
Next let's go through some exercises to help you get comfortable with database design and schemas:
Create tables with sample data for a system that tracks non-profits and their board members. A non-profit has many board members, so this is a one-to-many relationship. Sketch it out on a whiteboard or using a spreadsheet.
Suppose you wanted to make a list of restaurants in your neighborhood and group them together by the kind of food they serve. Create sample
restaurants
andtypes_of_food
tables. Start with a one-to-many relationship (assume a restaurant only serves one type of food). You can feel free to think about how you could make this a many-to-many relationship, but don't worry if you don't know how! We'll learn all about those in the next course section.Make a schema for your database tables of restaurants and the type of food they serve.
Best Restaurants
Create a website where users can add their favorite restaurants based on the type of cuisine they offer.
Add a
Cuisine
class. Build out all CRUD functionality (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for this class. Remember that "Read" means to view a particular cuisine and to list out all of the cuisines.Add a
Restaurant
class. Build out all CRUD functionality for this class.Add properties other than
name
to yourRestaurant
class so that you can display descriptive information about the restaurants.Make the connection between a cuisine and a restaurant in the database. A cuisine can have many restaurants, but a restaurant can only be attached to one cuisine.
Allow a user to search for all of a cuisine's restaurants.
Further Exploration
If you have time, go ahead and tackle the next few features.
Now your application allows for users to review restaurants. Build out a
Review
class and make the relationship in the database so that a restaurant has many reviews. Pretend that the users who are reviewing the website are different from the user who added the restaurant.Display all of the reviews at the bottom of the restaurant's page.
Peer Code Review
- Do the database table and column names follow proper naming conventions?
- Is there a one-to-many relationship set up correctly in Entity?
- Is ViewBag used correctly?
- Does the application work as expected?