Addition of global business settings for static server use (equivalent of v7 Global object)

server/AyaNova/Startup.cs

@@ -442,6 +442,10 @@ namespace AyaNova
             //Initialize license
             AyaNova.Core.License.InitializeAsync(apiServerState, dbContext, _newLog).Wait();
 
+            //Set static global biz settings
+            _newLog.LogDebug("BOOT: init global settings");
+            ServerGlobalBizSettings.Initialize(null, dbContext);
+
             //Ensure translations are present, not missing any keys and that there is a server default translation that exists          
             TranslationBiz lb = new TranslationBiz(dbContext, 1, ServerBootConfig.AYANOVA_DEFAULT_TRANSLATION_ID, AuthorizationRoles.OpsAdminFull);
             lb.ValidateTranslationsAsync().Wait();

server/AyaNova/models/AyContext.cs

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Models
 {
     public partial class AyContext : DbContext
     {
+        public virtual DbSet<GlobalBizSettings> GlobalBizSettings { get; set; }
         public virtual DbSet<Event> Event { get; set; }
         public virtual DbSet<SearchDictionary> SearchDictionary { get; set; }
         public virtual DbSet<SearchKey> SearchKey { get; set; }
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ namespace AyaNova.Models
         public virtual DbSet<DataListView> DataListView { get; set; }
         public virtual DbSet<Tag> Tag { get; set; }
         public virtual DbSet<FormCustom> FormCustom { get; set; }
-         public virtual DbSet<PickListTemplate> PickListTemplate { get; set; }
+        public virtual DbSet<PickListTemplate> PickListTemplate { get; set; }
-       
+
 
         //Note: had to add this constructor to work with the code in startup.cs that gets the connection string from the appsettings.json file
         //and commented out the above on configuring

server/AyaNova/models/GlobalBizSettings.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+namespace AyaNova.Models
+{
+
+    public partial class GlobalBizSettings
+    {
+        public long Id { get; set; }//this is always 1 as there is only ever one single global biz object
+        public uint ConcurrencyToken { get; set; }
+
+        //Global settings
+        //Picklist and other searches override the normal case insensitive value
+        //this is precautionarily added for non latinate languages where it could be an issue
+        public bool SearchCaseSensitiveOnly {get;set;}
+
+        public GlobalBizSettings()
+        {         
+            Id=1;//always 1  
+            SearchCaseSensitiveOnly = false;           
+        }
+    }
+}

server/AyaNova/util/AySchema.cs

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
         //!!!!WARNING: BE SURE TO UPDATE THE DbUtil::EmptyBizDataFromDatabaseForSeedingOrImporting WHEN NEW TABLES ADDED!!!!
         private const int DESIRED_SCHEMA_LEVEL = 10;
 
-        internal const long EXPECTED_COLUMN_COUNT = 100;
+        internal const long EXPECTED_COLUMN_COUNT = 102;
-        internal const long EXPECTED_INDEX_COUNT = 27;
+        internal const long EXPECTED_INDEX_COUNT = 28;
 
         //!!!!WARNING: BE SURE TO UPDATE THE DbUtil::EmptyBizDataFromDatabaseForSeedingOrImporting WHEN NEW TABLES ADDED!!!!
 
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ namespace AyaNova.Util
             {
                 LogUpdateMessage(log);
 
+                //create global biz settings table
+                 await ExecQueryAsync("CREATE TABLE aglobalbizsettings (id integer NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, " +
+                "searchcasesensitiveonly bool default false)");
+
                 //create aevent biz event log table
                 await ExecQueryAsync("CREATE TABLE aevent (id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY, created timestamp not null, userid bigint not null," +
                 "ayid bigint not null, aytype integer not null, ayevent integer not null, textra varchar(255))");

server/AyaNova/util/ServerBootConfig.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

server/AyaNova/util/ServerGlobalBizSettings.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
+using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
+using System.Linq;
+using AyaNova.Models;
+
+namespace AyaNova.Util
+{
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Contains static mirror copy in memory of global settings values that are set from DB during boot 
+    /// and accessible to Biz admin user (equivalent of v7's global object)
+    /// used by many areas of the biz logic and processing too often to fetch on every request
+    /// set at boot and on any update to the db global biz settings record
+    /// </summary>
+    internal static class ServerGlobalBizSettings
+    {
+
+        internal static bool SearchCaseSensitiveOnly { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Populate and / or create the settings
+        /// </summary>     
+        internal static void Initialize(GlobalBizSettings global, AyContext ct = null)
+        {
+
+            if (global == null)
+            {
+                //fetch or create as not provided (meaning this was called from Startup.cs)
+                global = ct.GlobalBizSettings.FirstOrDefault(m => m.Id == 1);
+                if (global == null)
+                {
+                    global = new GlobalBizSettings();
+                    ct.GlobalBizSettings.Add(global);
+                    ct.SaveChanges();
+                }
+            }
+
+
+            SearchCaseSensitiveOnly = global.SearchCaseSensitiveOnly;
+        }
+
+
+
+    }//eoc
+}//eons