Dapper also supports few extended scenarios, such as using an array as the values for an IN operator in a WHERE clause. The IN operator allows you to specify multiple values in a WHERE clause.
In the previous articles, we have implemented various methods which retrieve either all records from the table or only one based on the Id we passed as a parameter.
Now let's say we want to retrieve a list of records based on ids which we will pass as parameters as shown in the following example.
private static void GetAuthors(params int[] ids)
{
using (IDbConnection db = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
{
List<Author> authors =
db.Query<Author>("SELECT * FROM Authors WHERE Id IN @Ids", new { Ids = ids })
.ToList();
foreach (var author in authors)
{
Console.WriteLine(author.FirstName + " " + author.LastName);
}
}
}
It is pretty simple and almost identical to the examples we have implemented previously.
GetAuthors method is taking an array of integers as the inputs.SELECT statement, we are specifying the list of IDs as the typical anonymous type that we have seen many times.IN operator needs for the WHERE clause.You can call this method as shown below.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
GetAuthors(1, 3);
}
Let's execute the above code, and you will see the following output.
Cardinal Tom B. Erichsen
Robert T. Kiyosaki