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Creating GroupBy Dynamic Expressions

I am trying to dynamically restructure some data that will be displayed in a tree structure, which will allow the user to select up to three of the following dimensions to group the data:

Organisation
Company
Site
Division
Department

So, for example, if the user had to choose what they would like to group by company, then the site then the section ... the following code will perform the necessary groupings.

var entities = orgEntities
// Grouping Level 1
.GroupBy(o => new { o.CompanyID, o.CompanyName })
.Select(grp1 => new TreeViewItem
        {
        CompanyID = grp1.Key.CompanyID,
        DisplayName = grp1.Key.CompanyName,
        ItemTypeEnum = TreeViewItemType.Company,
        SubItems = grp1
               // Grouping Level 2
               .GroupBy(o => new { o.SiteID, o.SiteName })
               .Select(grp2 => new TreeViewItem
               {
               SiteID = grp2.Key.SiteID,
               DisplayName = grp2.Key.SiteName,
               ItemTypeEnum = TreeViewItemType.Site,
               SubItems = grp2
                  // Grouping Level 3
                  .GroupBy(o => new { o.Division })
                  .Select(grp3 => new TreeViewItem
                  {
                      DisplayName = grp3.Key.Division,
                      ItemTypeEnum = TreeViewItemType.Division,
                  }).ToList()
               }).ToList()
        })
.ToList();

This will give a structure like this:

+ Company A
  + Site A
    + Division 1
    + Division 2
  + Site B
    + Division 1
+ Company B
  + Site C
    + Division 2
+ Company C
  + Site D

However, this only gives me a large number of combinations.

How would I decide to convert this to something that could create an equivalent expression dynamically based on three dimensions selected by the user, and therefore I do not need to create one of these expressions for each combination ??

Thanks guys.

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public struct EntityGroupKey
{
  public int ID {get;set;}
  public string Name {get;set;}
}

public class EntityGrouper
{
  public Func<Entity, EntityGroupKey> KeySelector {get;set;}
  public Func<EntityGroupKey, TreeViewItem> ResultSelector {get;set;}
  public EntityGrouper NextGrouping {get;set;} //null indicates leaf level

  public List<TreeViewItem> GetItems(IEnumerable<Entity> source)
  {
    var query =
      from x in source
      group x by KeySelector(x) into g
      let subItems = NextGrouping == null ?
        new List<TreeViewItem>() :
        NextGrouping.GetItems(g)
      select new { Item = ResultSelector(g.Key), SubItems = subItems };

    List<TreeViewItem> result = new List<TreeViewItem>();
    foreach(var queryResult in query)
    {
          // wire up the subitems
      queryResult.Item.SubItems = queryResult.SubItems 
      result.Add(queryResult.Item);
    }
    return result;
  }

}

:

EntityGrouper companyGrouper = new EntityGrouper()
{
  KeySelector = o => new EntityGroupKey() {ID = o.CompanyID, Name = o.CompanyName},
  ResultSelector = key => new TreeViewItem
  {
    CompanyID = key.ID,
    DisplayName = key.Name,
    ItemTypeEnum = TreeViewItemType.Company
  }
}

EntityGrouper divisionGrouper = new EntityGrouper()
{
  KeySelector = o => new EntityGroupKey() {ID = 0, Name = o.Division},
  ResultSelector = key => new TreeViewItem
  {
    DisplayName = key.Name,
    ItemTypeEnum = TreeViewItemType.Division
  } 
}

companyGrouper.NextGrouping = divisionGrouper;

List<TreeViewItem> oneWay = companyGrouper.GetItems(source);

companyGrouper.NextGrouping = null;
divisionGrouper.NextGrouping = companyGrouper;

List<TreeViewItem> otherWay = divisionGrouper.GetItems(source);
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- DynamicLinq. LINQ ( DB, LINQ2SQL), , /:

var entities = orgEntities
    .GroupBy("new(CompanyID, CompanyName)", "it", null) // DynamicLinq uses 'it' to reference the instance variable in lambdas.
    .Select(grp1 => new TreeViewItem
    {
        ...
        .GroupBy("new(SiteID, o.SiteName)", "it", null)
        // And so on...

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