Question

I’m using the current Linq provider for NHibernate (version 2.1).

I have two entities: VideoGame and GameDeveloper, with a many-to-one
relationship between them.
I’m trying to perform a query of this sort, which counts the number of
video games each game developer has:

from v in session.Linq<VideoGame>()
group by v.Developer into developerGroup
select new {developerGroup.Key.Name, Count = developerGroup.Count()}

Enumerating this query causes an exception – “could not resolve
property Key of Entities.VideoGame”.
Now, if I group by v.Developer.Id it works, but I can’t select the
Name column and show it in the results. I could group by
v.Developer.Name, but it doesn’t seem right, as two developers might
have the same name.

I know the current Linq provider is not being developed any more, but
would appreciate any advice on the situation.

Answer 1

How about

from v in session.Linq<VideoGame>()
group by v.Developer into developerGroup
select new {key = developerGroup.Key, count = developerGroup.Count()}

Seems like group by is broken in the 2.1 NHibernate LINQ provider. A while ago Steve Strong blogged that group by is in the trunk so if you are feeling adventurous enough and not willing to wait on 3.0 then that could be an option.

Or you could use a brute force solution something like this

from v in (from vg in session.Linq<VideoGame>() select vg).ToList()
group by v.Developer into developerGroup
select new {developerGroup.Key.Name, Count = developerGroup.Count()};