Question

I’ve got a class with a bunch of [ColumnName(‘foo’)] NHibernate attributes. Is there an easy way to ask NHibernate to list all of the ColumnNames for a given class?

It sounds like it should be really easy but I’m just not seeing any kind of inspection in the NHibernate docs (or maybe I’m just blind today).

Answer 1

Use LINQ and reflection:

var columns = typeof(TheClass).GetProperties()     .Where(property => property.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(ColumnNameAttribute), false).Count > 0)     .Select(property => property.Name);