[WAR]: Beginnings of a fix for #132

src/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters.sln

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
-# Visual Studio 15
-VisualStudioVersion = 15.0.27004.2005
+# Visual Studio 14
+VisualStudioVersion = 14.0.25123.0
 MinimumVisualStudioVersion = 10.0.40219.1
 Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "EntityFramework.DynamicFilters", "EntityFramework.DynamicFilters\EntityFramework.DynamicFilters.csproj", "{56E36AD1-E675-42F0-96CB-7F475E05E491}"
 EndProject

src/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters/DynamicFilterDefinition.cs

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 
 namespace EntityFramework.DynamicFilters
 {
-    internal class DynamicFilterDefinition
+    [Serializable]
+    public class DynamicFilterDefinition
     {
         /// <summary>
         /// Unique ID assigned to each distinct filter.  Used to find unique filters on an entity
@@ -22,16 +23,24 @@ internal class DynamicFilterDefinition
         /// </summary>
         public string ColumnName { get; private set; }
 
+
+
+        [NonSerialized]
+        private LambdaExpression _predicate;
+
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Set if the filter is a LambdaExpression.  Null if filter is a single column equality filter.
-        /// </summary>
-        public LambdaExpression Predicate { get; private set; }
+        /// </summary>        
+
+        public LambdaExpression Predicate { get { return _predicate; } private set { _predicate = value; } }
 
         public Type CLRType { get; private set; }
 
         public DynamicFilterOptions Options { get; private set; }
 
-        public string AttributeName { get { return string.Concat(DynamicFilterConstants.ATTRIBUTE_NAME_PREFIX, DynamicFilterConstants.DELIMETER, CLRType.Name, DynamicFilterConstants.DELIMETER, FilterName); } }
+        public string AttributeName { get { return DynamicFilterConstants.ATTRIBUTE_NAME_PREFIX; } }
+
 
         internal DynamicFilterDefinition(Guid id, string filterName, LambdaExpression predicate, string columnName, Type clrType, DynamicFilterOptions options)
         {

src/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters/DynamicFilterSerializer.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+using System;
+using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
+
+namespace EntityFramework.DynamicFilters
+{
+    internal class DynamicFilterSerializer : IMetadataAnnotationSerializer
+    {
+        public object Deserialize(string name, string value)
+        {
+            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(value)))
+            {
+                var bf = new BinaryFormatter();
+
+                return (DynamicFilterDefinition)bf.Deserialize(ms);
+            }
+        }
+
+        public string Serialize(string name, object value)
+        {
+            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
+            {
+                var bf = new BinaryFormatter();
+                bf.Serialize(ms, value);
+
+                return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}

src/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters.csproj

@@ -40,10 +40,12 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
   <ItemGroup>
     <Reference Include="EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
-      <HintPath>..\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.1\lib\net40\EntityFramework.dll</HintPath>
+      <HintPath>..\packages\EntityFramework.6.2.0\lib\net40\EntityFramework.dll</HintPath>
+      <Private>True</Private>
     </Reference>
     <Reference Include="EntityFramework.SqlServer, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
-      <HintPath>..\packages\EntityFramework.6.1.1\lib\net40\EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll</HintPath>
+      <HintPath>..\packages\EntityFramework.6.2.0\lib\net40\EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll</HintPath>
+      <Private>True</Private>
     </Reference>
     <Reference Include="System" />
     <Reference Include="System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations" />
@@ -66,7 +68,9 @@
     <Compile Include="DynamicFilterQueryVisitorOld.cs" />
     <Compile Include="DynamicFilterQueryVisitorSSpace.cs" />
     <Compile Include="DynamicFilterQueryVisitorCSpace.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="DynamicFilterSerializer.cs" />
     <Compile Include="LambdaToDbExpressionVisitor.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="MyDbConfiguration.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>
   <ItemGroup>

src/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters/MyDbConfiguration.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Data.Entity;
+using System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace EntityFramework.DynamicFilters
+{
+    public class MyDbConfiguration : DbConfiguration
+    {
+        public MyDbConfiguration() : base()
+        {
+            this.SetMetadataAnnotationSerializer("DynamicFilter", () => new DynamicFilterSerializer());
+            this.SetModelStore(new DefaultDbModelStore(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()));
+        }
+    }
+}

src/EntityFramework.DynamicFilters/packages.config

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <packages>
-  <package id="EntityFramework" version="6.1.1" targetFramework="net40" />
+  <package id="EntityFramework" version="6.2.0" targetFramework="net40" />
 </packages>