Build IQueryable.Any with Expression Trees for LINQ queries

Question

I\'m building a SQL \"WHERE\" clause dynamically using the System.Linq.Expressions.Expression class. It works well for simple clauses, e.g. to add \"PhaseCode = X\" clause, I do

Answer 1

Calling an extension method, like Enumerable.Any or Queryable.Any, is simply a static method call on the sequence and the lambda expression you created for the WHERE clause. You can use Expression.Call to do this:

// for Enumerable.Any<T>(IEnumerable<T>,Predicate<T>)
var overload = typeof(Enumerable).GetMethods("Any")
                                 .Single(mi => mi.GetParameters().Count() == 2);
var call = Expression.Call(
    overload,
    Expression.PropertyOrField(projParam, "GroupsAssigned"),
    anyLambda);      

For Queryable.Any<T>, you'll need to roll this up into a method:

static Expression BuildAny<TSource>(Expression<Func<TSource, bool>> predicate)
{
    var overload = typeof(Queryable).GetMethods("Any")
                              .Single(mi => mi.GetParameters().Count() == 2);
    var call = Expression.Call(
        overload,
        Expression.PropertyOrField(projParam, "GroupsAssigned"),
        predicate);   

    return call;
}

Although this seems odd that you're unable to do this through a normal query.