Fluent API, many-to-many in Entity Framework Core

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I've searched stackoverflow for a proper solution on generating a many-to-many relationship, using EF Core, Code first and Fluent API.

A simple scenario would be:

public class Person
{
    public Person() {
        Clubs = new HashSet<Club>();
    }
    public int PersonId { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Club> Clubs { get; set; }
}

public class Club
{
    public Club() {
        Persons = new HashSet<Person>();
    }
    public int ClubId { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<Person> Persons { get; set; }
}

Please correct me if im wrong but I could honestly not find a question that contains an elaborate explanation on how to do this using the described tools. Can anyone explain how this is done?

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3 Answers

The correct "setup" for this is:

public class Person
{
    public int PersonId { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<PersonClub> PersonClubs { get; set; }
}

public class Club
{
    public int ClubId { get; set; }
    public virtual ICollection<PersonClub> PersonClubs { get; set; }
}

public class PersonClub
{
    public int PersonId { get; set; }
    public Person Person { get; set; }
    public int ClubId { get; set; }
    public Club Club { get; set; }
}
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
    modelBuilder.Entity<PersonClub>()
        .HasKey(pc => new { pc.PersonId, pc.ClubId });
}

So, this block for configuring the "glue-table" is not necessary as in @Kirk example:

modelBuilder.Entity<PersonClub>()
    .HasOne(pc => pc.Person)
    .WithMany(p => p.PersonClubs)
    .HasForeignKey(pc => pc.PersonId);

modelBuilder.Entity<PersonClub>()
    .HasOne(pc => pc.Club)
    .WithMany(c => c.PersonClubs)
    .HasForeignKey(pc => pc.ClubId);
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