How to return a generic entity using EF6 datacontext?

Question

I have a simple database with a 'Person' and a 'Subscription' table where each person has one or more subscriptions.

    private MyDBContext_dbContext;       

    public T GetByID(int ID)
    {
        return _dbContext.Mapping. ??
    }

Now the intention was to create a generic method to return either a Person entity or a Subscription entity from the datacontext based on the type provided.

In Linq2SQL I was able to use .GetTable<T> method, how can I do the same here with EntityFramework 6? The .Mapping part isn't even recognized by intellisense, so i am missing something basic here.

Thanks

Answer 1

DbContext offers you Set method. You may either use it as generic method:

DbSet<Person> people = DbContext.Set<Person>();

or non-generic:

DbSet<Person> people = DbContext.Set(typeof(Person)) as DbSet<Person>;