如何避免实体框架 4.3.1 中的重复插入

我有一个使用代码优先方法创建的小模型 - 一个类City其中仅包含有关城市名称的信息。

public class City
{
    public City()
    {
        Posts = new List<Post>();
    }

    public City(string cityName)
    {
        Name = cityName;
    }

    public virtual ICollection<Post> Posts { get; private set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; private set; }
}

A Post类表示邮政编码和城市参考的组合

public class Post
{
    public virtual City City { get; set; }        
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string ZipCode { get; set; }        
}

两个实体都在上下文中定义了它们的集合作为它们的配置

public DbSet<City> Cities { get; set; }
public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; }

modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new CityMap());
modelBuilder.Configurations.Add(new PostMap());


public class CityMap : EntityTypeConfiguration<City>
{
    public CityMap()
    {
        // Primary Key
        HasKey(t => t.Id);

        // Properties
        // Table & Column Mappings
        ToTable("City");
        Property(t => t.Id).HasColumnName("Id");
        Property(t => t.Name).HasColumnName("Name");
    }
}

public class PostMap : EntityTypeConfiguration<Post>
{
    public PostMap()
    {
        // Primary Key
        HasKey(t => t.Id);

        // Properties
        // Table & Column Mappings
        ToTable("Post");
        Property(t => t.Id).HasColumnName("Id");            
        Property(t => t.ZipCode).HasColumnName("ZipCode");

        // Relationships
        HasRequired(t => t.City)
        .WithMany(t => t.Posts)
        .Map(map=>map.MapKey("CityId"));
    }
}

我创建了用于使用静态方法操作这些对象的类，这些静态方法获取或创建对象并将它们返回给调用者。

private static City GetCity(string cityName)
{
        City city;

        using (var db = new DbContext())
        {
            city = db.Cities.SingleOrDefault(c => c.Name == cityName);

            if (city == null)
            {
                city = new City(cityName);
                db.Cities.Add(city);
                db.SaveChanges();                    
            }
        }

        return city;
    }

    private static Post GetPost(string zipCode, string cityName)
    {
        Post post;

        City city = GetCity(cityName);

        using (var db = new DbContext())
        {      
            post = db.Posts.SingleOrDefault(p => p.City.Id == city.Id && p.ZipCode == zipCode);
            if (post == null)
            {
                post = new Post { City = city, ZipCode = zipCode };

                // State of city is unchanged
                db.Posts.Add(post);

                // State of city is Added
                db.SaveChanges();
            }
        }

        return post;
    }

想象一下，我调用方法

GetPost("11000","Prague");

method GetCity启动，如果不存在，方法创建一个city然后调用SaveChanges() method.

如果我设置返回city实体到新Post例如，实体框架为相同的内容生成第二个插入city.

我怎样才能避免这种行为？我只想插入新的post引用的实体city在上一步中创建或加载。

您需要设置State当您将其附加到未更改的城市时

context.Entry(city).State = EntityState.Unchanged;