How to achieve an eagerly loaded, filtered child collection with the NHibernate criteria API

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Published on 2010-05-08T07:37:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 7:48 UTC
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Is it possible to use the criteria api to load a set of parent objects along with a filtered, eagerly loaded set of child objects? I'm trying to query a list of categories and at the same time load the categories products that start with the letter M. The query below gives me the results I want but the Products are not eagerly loaded, that is NHibernate performs additional queries when I enumerate the Product collection:

 var categoriesWithProducts = session.CreateCriteria<Category>()
    .SetFetchMode("Products", FetchMode.Eager)
    .CreateCriteria("Products")
    .Add(Expression.Like("Name", "M%"))
    .List<Category>();

What am I missing here?

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