Question

Does ToFuture works with nhibernate linq? If so, how do you use it?

Answer 1

Yes it does. Here’s a simple example:

var blogs = _session.Query<Blog>()
    .Take(30)
    .ToFuture();
var blogCount= _session.Query<Blog>()
    .ToFutureValue(x => x.Count());

Console.WriteLine(blogCount.Value); // DB is queried here.

Here’s an example of where I’ve used it for a customer search form that displayed paged search results and and a total count of search results. Notice you can reuse an IQueryable to create two futures. The Filter methods built an IQueryable based on what fields the user searched by.

int resultsPerPage = 50;
var query = _session.Query<CustomerSearch>()
    .FilterById(model)
    .FilterByFirstName(model)
    .FilterByLastName(model)
    .FilterBySocialSecurityNumber(model)    
    .FilterByPrimaryPhoneNumber(model);
var futureResults = query
    .OrderBy(x => x.Id)
    .Skip(model.Page * resultsPerPage)
    .Take(resultsPerPage)
    .ToFuture();
var futureCount = query.ToFutureValue(x => x.Count());