NHibernate Query across multiple tables
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I am using NHibernate, and am trying to figure out how to write a query, that searchs all the names of my entities, and lists the results. As a simple example, I have the following objects;
public class Cat {
public string name {get; set;}
}
public class Dog {
    public string name {get; set;}
}
public class Owner {
    public string firstname {get; set;}
    public string lastname {get; set;}
}
Eventaully I want to create a query , say for example, which and returns all the pet owners with an name containing "ted", OR pets with a name containing "ted".
Here is an example of the SQL I want to execute:
SELECT TOP 10 d.*, c.*, o.* FROM owners AS o
INNER JOIN dogs AS d ON o.id = d.ownerId 
INNER JOIN cats AS c ON o.id = c.ownerId
WHERE o.lastname like '%ted%' 
OR o.firstname like '%ted%' 
OR c.name like '%ted%' 
OR d.name like '%ted%' 
When I do it using Criteria like this:
    var criteria = session.CreateCriteria<Owner>()
        .Add(
        Restrictions.Disjunction()
            .Add(Restrictions.Like("FirstName", keyword, MatchMode.Anywhere))
            .Add(Restrictions.Like("LastName", keyword, MatchMode.Anywhere))
        )
        .CreateCriteria("Dog").Add(Restrictions.Like("Name", keyword, MatchMode.Anywhere))
        .CreateCriteria("Cat").Add(Restrictions.Like("Name", keyword, MatchMode.Anywhere));
        return criteria.List<Owner>();
The following query is generated:
   SELECT TOP 10 d.*, c.*, o.* FROM owners AS o
   INNER JOIN dogs AS d ON o.id = d.ownerId 
   INNER JOIN cats AS c ON o.id = c.ownerId 
   WHERE o.lastname like '%ted%' 
   OR o.firstname like '%ted%' 
   AND d.name like '%ted%'
   AND c.name like '%ted%'
How can I adjust my query so that the .CreateCriteria("Dog") and .CreateCriteria("Cat") generate an OR instead of the AND?
thanks for your help.
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