I have implemented the same function "distancebetween" as in Nerddinner. I created an airport repository and have these methods:
public IQueryable<AllAirports> ReturnAllAirportWithIn50milesOfAPoint(double lat, double lon)
{
var airports = from d in im.AllAirports
where DistanceBetween(lat, lon, (double)d.Lat, (double)d.Lon) < 1000.00
select d;
return airports;
}
[EdmFunction("AirTravelModel.Store", "DistanceBetween")]
public static double DistanceBetween(double lat1, double long1, double lat2, double long2)
{
throw new NotImplementedException("Only call through LINQ expression");
}
When I tested it, it shows:
base {"The specified method 'Double DistanceBetween(Double, Double, Double, Double)' on the type 'AirTravelMVC3.Models.Repository.AirportRepository' cannot be translated into a LINQ to Entities store expression because no overload matches the passed arguments."} System.SystemException {System.NotSupportedException}
Do you have any ideas on why this happen? The only different between my work and nerddinner is that I used a POCO plugin in entity framework.
The SQL UDF is as follows, it works very well in the database:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[DistanceBetween](@Lat1 as real, @Long1 as real, @Lat2 as real, @Long2 as real) RETURNS real AS BEGIN DECLARE @dLat1InRad as float(53); SET @dLat1InRad = @Lat1 * (PI()/180.0); DECLARE @dLong1InRad as float(53); SET @dLong1InRad = @Long1 * (PI()/180.0); DECLARE @dLat2InRad as float(53); SET @dLat2InRad = @Lat2 * (PI()/180.0); DECLARE @dLong2InRad as float(53); SET @dLong2InRad = @Long2 * (PI()/180.0); DECLARE @dLongitude as float(53); SET @dLongitude = @dLong2InRad - @dLong1InRad; DECLARE @dLatitude as float(53); SET @dLatitude = @dLat2InRad - @dLat1InRad; /* Intermediate result a. */ DECLARE @a as float(53); SET @a = SQUARE (SIN (@dLatitude / 2.0)) + COS (@dLat1InRad) * COS (@dLat2InRad) * SQUARE(SIN (@dLongitude / 2.0)); /* Intermediate result c (great circle distance in Radians). */ DECLARE @c as real; SET @c = 2.0 * ATN2 (SQRT (@a), SQRT (1.0 - @a)); DECLARE @kEarthRadius as real; /* SET kEarthRadius = 3956.0 miles */ SET @kEarthRadius = 6376.5; /* kms */ DECLARE @dDistance as real; SET @dDistance = @kEarthRadius * @c; return (@dDistance); END
In order to do this using POCOs with the existing NerdDinner source I had to add this to the DinnerRepository class:
public IQueryable<Dinner> FindByLocation(float latitude, float longitude)
{
List<Dinner> resultList = new List<Dinner>();
var results = db.Database.SqlQuery<Dinner>("SELECT * FROM Dinners WHERE EventDate >= {0} AND dbo.DistanceBetween({1}, {2}, Latitude, Longitude) < 1000", DateTime.Now, latitude, longitude);
foreach (Dinner result in results)
{
resultList.Add(db.Dinners.Where(d => d.DinnerID == result.DinnerID).FirstOrDefault());
}
return resultList.AsQueryable<Dinner>();
}