Deleting bulk items by ID (e.g. Integrating Extended Entity Framework Features?)

[chrispepper1989]

Apologies if this is the wrong place to raise this but I was wondering if there have been any plans to integrate features from:

https://github.com/loresoft/EntityFramework.Extended

Reason I ask is I am currently getting full models back just to delete them, here is a simplified version of what I am doing (effectively we don't, and can't, have cascading foreign keys in the DB)

void DeleteChildren(IModel model)
{
	var children = Context.Where(o => o.OwnderID == model.Id)

	foreach (var child in children)
	{
	    CallDeleteOnChildren(existingModel); //Call delete on each child, effectively recursive
		ModelContext.Current.Entry(existingModel).State = EntityState.Deleted;
	}
	ModelContext.Current.SaveChanges();
}

virtual CallDeleteOnChildren(IModel model){}

//which might be overiden like
virtual CallDeleteOnChildren(IModel model)
{
    Items1.DeleteChildren(model);
	Items2.DeleteChildren(model);
	//etc
}

I would just use the library above, but it looks like its no longer maintained and I don't want to bring an unmaintained library into the codebase. But effectively I am imagining that this would be quicker:

void DeleteChildren(IModel model)
{
	var children = Context.Where(o => o.OwnderID == model.Id).Select(o => o.id);

	foreach (var child in children)
	{
	     CallDeleteOnChildren(existingModel); //Call delete on each child, effectively recursive
		
	}
	Context.Where(s => children.contains(s.Id)).Delete();
}

Of course this might be a chicken before the egg problem....

[rowanmiller]

We've got the feature on our backlog (#795). It's not something we are planning to do in the immediate future, but we do think it would be a good feature to have.