Question

I have a database schema where the convention for a foreign key’s name is:

ForeignTable.Name + ForeignTable.PrimaryKeyName

So, for a Child table referencing a Parent table with a primary key column named Key, the foreign key will look like ParentKey.

Is there a way to create this convention in my Fluent NHibernate mapping?

Currently I’m using a ForeignKeyConvention implementation like this:

public class ForeignKeyNamingConvention : ForeignKeyConvention
{
    protected override string GetKeyName(PropertyInfo property, Type type)
    {
        if (property == null)
        {
            // Relationship is many-to-many, one-to-many or join.
            if (type == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("type");

            return type.Name + "ID";
        }

        // Relationship is many-to-one.
        return property.Name + "ID";
    }
}

This works exactly as I want for all types which have “ID” as a primary key. What I would like to do is replace the constant “ID” with the name of the primary key of the type being referenced.

If this isn’t currently possible with Fluent NHibernate, I’m happy to accept that answer.

Answer 1

If you can get the Mapping<T> for a class, you can get the name of its Id column.

public class MyForeignKeyConvention: ForeignKeyConvention
{
    public static IList<IMappingProvider> Mappings = new List<IMappingProvider>();

    protected override string GetKeyName( System.Reflection.PropertyInfo property, Type type )
    {
        var pk = "Id";

        var model = new PersistenceModel();
        foreach( var map in Mappings ) {
            model.Add( map );
        }

        try {
            var mymodel = (IdMapping) model.BuildMappings()
                .First( x => x.Classes.FirstOrDefault( c => c.Type == type ) != null )
                .Classes.First().Id;

            Func<IdMapping, string> getname = x => x.Columns.First().Name;
            pk = getname( mymodel );
        } catch {
        }

        if (property == null) {
            return type.Name + pk;
        }
        return type.Name + property.Name;
    }
}

We can get the Mapping object with a little bit of plumbing.

The constructors of ClassMap<T> can pass this into our collection of Mappers.

For AutoMapping<T>, we can use Override as follows.

.Mappings( m => m.AutoMappings.Add( AutoMap.AssemblyOf<FOO>()
    .Override<User>( u => {
        u.Id( x => x.Id ).Column( "UID" );
        MyForeignKeyConvention.Mappings.Add( u );
    }
)