Joining Operator: GroupJoin

The GroupJoin operator performs the same task as Join operator except that GroupJoin returns a result in group based on specified group key. The GroupJoin operator joins two sequences based on key and groups the result by matching key and then returns the collection of grouped result and key.

GroupJoin requires same parameters as Join.

let’s understand GroupJoin using following Student and Standard class where Student class includes StandardID that matches with StandardID of Standard class.

public class Student{ 
    public int StudentID { get; set; }
    public string StudentName { get; set; }
    public int StandardID { get; set; }
}

public class Standard{ 
    public int StandardID { get; set; }
    public string StandardName { get; set; }
}

Consider the following GroupJoin query example.

IList<Student> studentList = new List<Student>() { 
    new Student() { StudentID = 1, StudentName = "John", StandardID =1 },
    new Student() { StudentID = 2, StudentName = "Moin", StandardID =1 },
    new Student() { StudentID = 3, StudentName = "Bill", StandardID =2 },
    new Student() { StudentID = 4, StudentName = "Ram",  StandardID =2 },
    new Student() { StudentID = 5, StudentName = "Ron" } 
};

IList<Standard> standardList = new List<Standard>() { 
    new Standard(){ StandardID = 1, StandardName="Standard 1"},
    new Standard(){ StandardID = 2, StandardName="Standard 2"},
    new Standard(){ StandardID = 3, StandardName="Standard 3"}
};

var groupJoin = standardList.GroupJoin(studentList,  //inner sequence
                                std => std.StandardID, //outerKeySelector 
                                s => s.StandardID,     //innerKeySelector
                                (std, studentsGroup) => new // resultSelector 
                                {
                                    Students = studentsGroup,
                                    StandarFulldName = std.StandardName
                                });

foreach (var item in groupJoin)
{ 
    Console.WriteLine(item.StandarFulldName );

    foreach(var stud in item.Students)
        Console.WriteLine(stud.StudentName);
}

Reference

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.groupjoin?view=net-7.0

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