I am just trying to understand the capabilities of NH, this is not a for a real application (sorry I didn't mention this before).
Thanks for your help Oskar, I did not realize join was only for 1 to 1 relationships. On Jan 18, 8:15 am, Oskar Berggren <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe you will not be able to do this with <join>. The element is > for when you have a 1-to-1 relationship. > > Must the UserType be another table? > > If you have a group of properties that can together be called > UserType, why do you believe it is a good idea to expose them as > properties directly on the User? > > Obviously I don't know all the details but my gut feeling is that if > you want to categorize users, it sort of defeats the purpose if you > don't reflect this in you model by having a UserType entity. > > /Oskar > > 2010/1/18 Robin Clowers <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi Oskar, thanks for your response. I'm not sure what technical > > details you are looking for, but I will try and restate my question > > more clearly. > > > I have a User table with a foreign key to a UserType table. I would > > like to have a single entity, User which has the properties from both > > tables. To do this, I am using the <join> element. I realize I would > > map this a relationship, but that is not what I want. > > > Two questions, first: is this supported? I was able to load a user > > with the join mapping, but have not been able to save one. Second: if > > it is supported, is it a good idea? > > > On Jan 18, 7:47 am, Oskar Berggren <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You are either confused, or express yourself confusingly. :) You > >> don't provide technical details, but it sounds like you are using > >> <join> when in fact what you have is a one-to-many relationship. Map > >> this with <many-to-one> in the mapping for User. > > >> The <join> element is when two or more tables should be used for the > >> _same_ object. > > >> /Oskar > > >> 2010/1/18 Robin Clowers <[email protected]>: > > >> > Hi I originally posted this to stack overflow, but I didn't get an > >> > answer quickly so I thought someone here might be able to help. > > >> > I have a User table which has a foreign key to the UserType table. I > >> > created a User object with a Type property that is mapped as a join to > >> > the UserType table. Is there a way to insert a new User without > >> > inserting a new UserType? > > >> >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2083415/how-do-you-save-an-nhibern... > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups "nhusers" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected]. > >> > For more options, visit this group > >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "nhusers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en.
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