NH has its own Generic Enum Mapper BTW
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Derick Bailey <der...@derickbailey.com>wrote:
>
> in NHibernate, the default mapping of an Enum is to an integer (at
> least, I've never told it to do anything special, and it has always
> mapped to my integer columns fine). In FluentNHibernate, the default
> mapping is to a string, because of the GenericEnumMapper class:
>
> namespace FluentNHibernate.Mapping
> {
> public class GenericEnumMapper<TEnum> : EnumStringType
> {
> public GenericEnumMapper()
> : base(typeof (TEnum))
> {
> }
> }
> }
>
> the problem is the "EnumStringType" that's being inherited from.
>
> I don't want to map enums to strings. I want to map them to integers,
> because I use the enum integer value as a primary key in a relational
> table, for data consistency and reporting purposes.
>
> How do I tell FluentNHibernate to not map the enum as a string, but
> map as an int? There is no "EnumIntType" to create a different enum
> mapper, and when i pass in an empty string for the .CustomType of my
> property, it throws an exception.
> >
>
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