I am following the http://wiki.fluentnhibernate.org/Getting_started tutorial to create my first NHibernate project with Fluent NHibernate
I have 2 tables
1) Account with fields
Id
AccountHolderName
AccountTypeId
2) AccountType with fields
Id
AccountTypeName
Right now the account types can be Savings or Current
So the table AccountTypes stores 2 rows
1 - Savings
2 - Current
For AccoutType table I have defined enum
public enum AccountType {
Savings=1,
Current=2
}
For Account table I define the entity class
public class Account {
public virtual int Id {get; private set;}
public virtual string AccountHolderName {get; set;}
public virtual string AccountType {get; set;}
}
The fluent nhibernate mappings are:
public AgencyMap() {
Id(o => o.Id);
Map(o => o.AccountHolderName);
Map(o => o.AccountType);
}
When I try to run the solution, it gives an exception - InnerException = {"(XmlDocument)(2,4): XML validation error: The element 'class' in namespace 'urn:nhibernate-mapping-2.2' has incomplete content. List of possible elements expected: 'meta, subselect, cache, synchronize, comment, tuplizer, id, composite-id' in namespace 'ur...
I guess that is because I have not speciofied any mapping for AccountType.
The questions are:
- How can I use AccountType enum
instead of a AccountType class?
- Maybe I am going on wrong track. Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks!
The following apparently no longer works https://stackoverflow.com/a/503327/189412
How about just doing this:
public AgencyMap() {
Id(o => o.Id);
Map(o => o.AccountHolderName);
Map(o => o.AccountType).CustomType<AccountType>();
}
The custom type handles everything :)
public class Account {
public virtual int Id {get; private set;}
public virtual string AccountHolderName {get; set;}
public virtual AccountType AccountType {get; set;}
}
public AgencyMap() {
Id(o => o.Id);
Map(o => o.AccountHolderName);
Map(o => o.AccountType);
}
Fluent NHibernate saves enum values as string by default if you want to override that you need to supply a convention for it. Something like:
public class EnumConvention :
IPropertyConvention,
IPropertyConventionAcceptance
{
#region IPropertyConvention Members
public void Apply(IPropertyInstance instance)
{
instance.CustomType(instance.Property.PropertyType);
}
#endregion
#region IPropertyConventionAcceptance Members
public void Accept(IAcceptanceCriteria<IPropertyInspector> criteria)
{
criteria.Expect(x => x.Property.PropertyType.IsEnum ||
(x.Property.PropertyType.IsGenericType &&
x.Property.PropertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>) &&
x.Property.PropertyType.GetGenericArguments()[0].IsEnum)
);
}
#endregion
}
Almost forgot that you need to add the convention to your fluent config as well. You do that at the same place you add the mappings:
.Mappings(m => m.FluentMappings.AddFromAssemblyOf<BillingRecordMap>()
.Conventions.AddFromAssemblyOf<EnumConvention>()
A Great way to do this, is implement the interface IUserType and Create a CustomType with the rules to write and read, that´s a example to boolean:
public class CharToBoolean : IUserType
{
public SqlType[] SqlTypes => new[] { NHibernateUtil.String.SqlType };
public Type ReturnedType => typeof(bool);
public bool IsMutable =>true;
public object Assemble(object cached, object owner)
{
return (cached);
}
public object DeepCopy(object value)
{
return (value);
}
public object Disassemble(object value)
{
return (value);
}
public new bool Equals(object x, object y)
{
if (ReferenceEquals(x, y)) return true;
var firstObject = x as string;
var secondObject = y as string;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(firstObject) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(secondObject)) return false;
if (firstObject == secondObject) return true;
return false;
}
public int GetHashCode(object x)
{
return ((x != null) ? x.GetHashCode() : 0);
}
public object NullSafeGet(IDataReader rs, string[] names, object owner)
{
var obj = NHibernateUtil.String.NullSafeGet(rs, names[0]);
if (obj == null) return null;
var value = (string)obj;
return value.ToBoolean();
}
public void NullSafeSet(IDbCommand cmd, object value, int index)
{
if(value != null)
{
if ((bool)value)
{
((IDataParameter)cmd.Parameters[index]).Value = "S";
}
else
{
((IDataParameter)cmd.Parameters[index]).Value = "N";
}
}
else
{
((IDataParameter)cmd.Parameters[index]).Value = DBNull.Value;
}
}
public object Replace(object original, object target, object owner)
{
return original;
}
}
}
the mapping:
this.Map(x => x.DominioGenerico).Column("fldominiogen").CustomType<CharToBoolean>();
It´s a sample but you can do this with other types.