Hi there

I'm just having a first look at NHibernate which looks really promising :)

However, I'm not sure whether I can make it fit my rather complex model. My main concern ist the serialization of such a class:



The field currentValue can hold arbitrary objects. All of them have in common that they are marked as Serializable, but two instances of BusinessObject can have completely different object (e.g. one stores a Color value, another one a Size structcure and a third one a string or numeric value).

I assume the corresponding column in the table would either be binary to get binary serialization or text (serialized value with base64 encoding).

Can NHibernate handle proper storage and retrieval of such objects?

Thanks for your advice
Philipp

Create custom type which will serialize your objects on save and deserialize on load. Specify this type in the mapping document. Examples of such custom types you can find in NHibernate.Nullables library.