The relationship could not be changed because one or more of the foreign-key properties is non-nullable

Question

I am getting this error when I GetById() on an entity and then set the collection of child entities to my new list which comes from the MVC view.

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Answer 1

I ran into this problem today and wanted to share my solution. In my case, the solution was to delete the Child items before getting the Parent from the database.

Previously I was doing it like in the code below. I will then get the same error listed in this question.

var Parent = GetParent(parentId);
var children = Parent.Children;
foreach (var c in children )
{
     Context.Children.Remove(c);
}
Context.SaveChanges();

What worked for me, is to get the children items first, using the parentId (foreign key) and then delete those items. Then I can get the Parent from the database and at that point, it should not have any children items anymore and I can add new children items.

var children = GetChildren(parentId);
foreach (var c in children )
{
     Context.Children.Remove(c);
}
Context.SaveChanges();

var Parent = GetParent(parentId);
Parent.Children = //assign new entities/items here