Question

hii i am having a little problem in mapping all the entities in contained in the namespace “nhibernateTest.Domain” . it basically contains all the Map Classes like , StudentMap, DepartmentMap etc. .. now in case of normal nhibernate what we used to do is :

 private ISessionFactory _sessionFactory;
    private Configuration _configuration;

    [TestFixtureSetUp]
    public void TestFixtureSetUp()
    {

        _configuration = new Configuration().Configure().AddAssembly("nHibernateTest");      
        _sessionFactory = _configuration.BuildSessionFactory();
    }

now what it used to do is . look for all the “*.hbm.xml” files in my namespace and automatically map them…

can someone tell me how to do the same for fluent nHibernate ? so that it looks for all map classes and automatically map them so that i dont have to create the session separately for diffrent Map classes ?

Answer 1

You would need to specify your mappings when configuring Fluent NHibernate in your application. This is typically done by

Fluently.Configure()
  .Database(/* your database settings */)
  .Mappings(m => m.FluentMappings.AddFromAssemblyOf<StudentMap>())
  .ExposeConfiguration(/* alter Configuration */) // optional
  .BuildSessionFactory();

The code above is from this excellent link which talks about how to configure Fluent.