Nhibernate/Hibernate, lookup tables and object design
- by Simon G
Hi,
I've got two tables. Invoice with columns CustomerID, InvoiceDate, Value, InvoiceTypeID (CustomerID and InvoiceDate make up a composite key) and InvoiceType with InvoiceTypeID and InvoiceTypeName columns.
I know I can create my objects like:
public class Invoice
{
public virtual int CustomerID { get; set; }
public virtual DateTime InvoiceDate { get; set; }
public virtual decimal Value { get; set; }
public virtual InvoiceType InvoiceType { get; set; }
}
public class InvoiceType
{
public virtual InvoiceTypeID { get; set; }
public virtual InvoiceTypeName { get; set; }
}
So the generated sql would look something like:
SELECT CustomerID, InvoiceDate, Value, InvoiceTypeID FROM Invoice WHERE CustomerID = x AND InvoiceDate = y
SELECT InvoiceTypeID, InvoiceTypeName FROM InvoiceType WHERE InvoiceTypeID = z
But rather that having two select queries executed to retrieve the data I would rather have one. I would also like to avoid using child object for simple lookup lists. So my object would look something like:
public class Invoice
{
public virtual int CustomerID { get; set; }
public virtual DateTime InvoiceDate { get; set; }
public virtual decimal Value { get; set; }
public virtual InvoiceTypeID { get; set; }
public virtual InvoiceTypeName { get; set; }
}
And my sql would look something like:
SELECT CustomerID, InvoiceDate, Value, InvoiceTypeID
FROM Invoice INNER JOIN InvoiceType ON Invoice.InvoiceTypeID = InvoiceType.InvoiceTypeID
WHERE CustomerID = x AND InvoiceDate = y
My question is how do I create the mapping for this?
I've tried using join but this tried to join using CustomerID and InvoiceDate, am I missing something obvious?
Thanks
