Add an Improvement request to the JIRA: in case of <elements> and
<composite-element> we may enable on-delete-cascade.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM, yhrn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get a database level cascade in place for a collection
> of strings.
>
> Consider the following entity class:
>
> public class MyEntity {
>
>  public int Id { get; set; }
>  public int SomeIntValue { get; set; }
>  public IList<string> ListOfValues { get; set; }
> }
>
> The problem is that I cannot find a way to map the collection so that
> the foreign key constraint gets the ON DELETE CASCADE option. If I put
> on-delete="cascade" on the key element in the mapping I get the
> following exception message when building the session factory: 'only
> inverse one-to-many associations may use on-delete="cascade"'.
>
> The reason I want the ON DELETE CASCADE option is so I can execute
> bulk delete HQL like :
>  "delete MyEntity m where m.SomeIntValue = 22".
> without getting foreign key constraint violations if ListOfValues is
> non empty.
>
> Also, as far as I understand, NHibernate behaves more efficiently when
> using ISession.Delete() to delete an entity if it knows about the
> database level cascade, i.e. it leaves it to the database to do the
> cascaded deletions.
>
> So, is there a way of solving this with mappings or do I have to the
> add ON DELETE CASCADE myself directly to the DB schema?
>
> Best regards,
> Mattias
>
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