why you should use a table to represent constant ?
have you some "if" on the status ? (as : if( w.Status ==
WorkFkowStatus.Executing)...)

2009/12/13 rg <[email protected]>

> Hi, I'm frequently using some short dictionary tables containing id/
> name columns, for example to represent possible statuses of a simple
> workflow. Such table contains few values, like:
>
> 1, Creating
> 2, Accepting
> 3, Executing
> 4, Finished
> 5, Cancelled
>
> and is referred by an entity representing some business object -  so
> by joining it I can display current status of the object. My question
> is, how to represent such constant references in C# code, so I could
> write something like:
>
> r = new SomeBusinessCase()
> r.CreatedDate = DateTime.Now;
> r.Status = WorkflowStatus.Accepting; //this should be resolved as
> Session.Load<WorkflowStatus>(2);
>
> As you see, having aliases for constant key references would help keep
> the code clean. If such 'consts' were understood by NHibernate, this
> could also be used in HQL - like "from SomeBusinessCase where Status
> == WorkflowStatus.Executing". Is there something like that in NH, or
> what is the best way to achieve something similar?
>
> Best regards
> RG
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